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Software Engineer - Samsung Ads
About Samsung Ads:
Over the last few years, Samsung has been investing in building up a portfolio of engaging services across its devices to complement its market-leading hardware business while leveraging its unparalleled global distribution footprint. These services, along with a vast partner network and proprietary data, generate a massive opportunity for ad-based monetization.
Samsung Ads is a highly successful and fast-growing business that has operated for five years. The continued success of this business depends on the products, technologies, and tools owned by the Global Ads & Data Product & Engineering team. The Global P&E team is a large organization consisting of hundreds of people with a significant presence in four countries. This dynamic and complex team operates quickly, working across a broad spectrum of product and strategic domains.
Role and Responsibilities
Summary:
Join our distinguished Ad Experiences team, a high-performing organization dedicated to transforming customer perceptions of advertising through innovative, engaging interactive ad solutions that maximize advertiser reach and effectiveness.
As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will spearhead the development of advanced ad framework components across our comprehensive suite of interactive advertising products. Your responsibilities will encompass the complete software development lifecycle, including design, architecture, development, deployment, and maintenance of both server-side and client-side components within our sophisticated ad monetization and measurement infrastructure.
This position offers 100% hands-on development opportunities with a primary focus on software architecture excellence and engineering best practices. You will collaborate with a team of experienced, passionate engineers within our full-stack development group, operating as part of a larger engineering organization renowned for its robust technical culture and innovation in interactive advertising technologies.
Responsibilities

• Write efficient, clean, readable, fast, testable, documented code.
• Quickly prototyping and developing consumer-facing services that will be displayed on millions of devices.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams (Product Managers, UX designers) and other Software Engineers to deliver a compelling, easy-to-use product for the end consumers.
• Collaborate with peers and leaders across various Samsung Ad sites, driving cross-site efforts to improve platform capabilities.
• Ability to effectively communicate ideas to peers and distributed teams.
• Contributing towards building a system with a test-driven development /Agile approach
• Work with geographically distributed teams.
• Work on Technical Proposals to improve the software design and architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.
• Typically requires a minimum of 4+ years of related experience and a bachelor's degree, or 2+ years and a Master's degree, or a PhD without experience.
• At least 2 years of proven experience with Golang or similar language for the backend development in Ad Tech or a related industry.
• At least 2 years of proven experience with JavaScript, React and related languages for the frontend development in Ad Tech or a related industry.
• Event-driven systems / messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.
• Experience building analytics features: reporting, aggregations, operational metrics, customer-facing insights
• Familiarity with scaling patterns: caching, background jobs, rate limiting, performance tuning
• Experience building JavaScript framework and libraries for consumer facing devices with low memory footprints focusing on application performance.
• Experience building backend services based on microservices architecture.
• Strong architectural and design skills.
• Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git) and front-end build tools (e.g., webpack, npm.).
• Experience with performance optimization, responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
• Passion for building reliable "done right the first time" applications.
• A self-directed team player.
• Experienced with vibe coding and using Coding assistant tools.

Join our dynamic team and play a key role in shaping the future of our ad tech platform. If you're passionate about building cutting-edge advertising solutions and have a solid background in Full stack Engineering, we would love to hear from you!
Skills and Qualifications
Compensation for this role, for candidates based in Mountain View, CA is expected to be between $150,000 ~ $170,000 base. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role. Regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k), Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance (after 6 months), Paid Time Off, Student Loan Program (after 6 months), Wellness Incentives, and many more.
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