FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
Job Summary
FreeWheel is looking for passionate C++ Engineer to help design, build and
support our high-quality, innovative video advertising platform on our Streaming
Hub Team. The Streaming Hub organization develops and maintains forecasting,
optimization, decisioning, marketplace, and delivers solutions that power
FreeWheel’s ad decisioning and linear addressable products. The teams span
advanced forecasting, linear delivery systems, business-facing UI applications,
and infrastructure UI, ensuring scalable and reliable tools that serve publishers,
advertisers, and partners across digital and linear ecosystems.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities:
Abundant experience with C/C++, DB design, and network programming. Experience with Golang is a plus.
• Abundant experience with large system software design and development.
• Abundant experience with distributed systems and mission-critical systems.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage
timelines, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
and align engineering efforts with business objectives
• Advertising industry experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated expertise in problem-solving and technical innovation.
• Strong passion for learning/practicing new techniques.
• Ability to work closely with global teams and accept additional working time besides normal working hours to meet or co-work with global teams.
• Leading the development and implementation of innovative software and web applications, ensuring they align with business objectives and user requirements
• Integrating new systems seamlessly with existing infrastructure, focusing on scalability, security, and continuous performance improvement
• Mentoring team members and providing technical training, fostering a collaborative environment for knowledge sharing and professional growth
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful application integration, advocating for best practices in software development
• Participating in or leading peer programming sessions, design sprints, or prototyping sessions
• Driving the creation, maintenance, and accessibility of comprehensive documentation for all development activities
• Monitoring application performance metrics rigorously, utilizing data to guide enhancements and ensure delivery aligns with project goals
• Providing expert technical advice and support to internal stakeholders and external partners, effectively communicating complex concepts
• Collaborating with the Quality Assurance team to confirm applications meet rigorous testing standards and fulfil technical requirements
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Development
- Produce technical specifications and determine operational feasibility.
- Write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
- Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures.
- Document and maintain software functionality.
- Tailor and deploy engineering tools, processes, and metrics.
Support
- Support overall business.
- Technically solve issues.
Collaboration
- Collaborate with Product Managers (PMs) to build capabilities for business needs and ensure technical specifications align with operational feasibility.
- Lead and mentor a group of software engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and best practices to ensure high-quality deliverables
- Partner with global engineering, product, and operations teams to further incorporate collective innovations
Education:
- Bachelor ‘s Degree or above.
- At least 8 years of relevant work experience
Employees at all levels are expected to:
- Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
- Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
- Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
- Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
- Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
- Drive results and growth.
- Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
- Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Skills
C++ Programming Language, Collaboration, System Designs
Compensation
Primary Location Pay Range: $174,661.48 - $261,992.21
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience
10 Years +
Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.