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, A Comcast Company, empowers all segments of the New TV Ecosystem. We are structured to provide the full breadth of solutions the advertising industry needs to achieve its goals. We provide the technology, data enablement, and convergent marketplaces required to enable buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels, achieving the ultimate goal – results for marketers.
With offices in Reston, New York, Chicago, Denver, London, Paris, and across the globe, FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, stands to advocate for the entire industry through the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video.
For more information, please visit freewheel.com.
We are looking for a Software Engineer 1 to join our growing Application Infra team. This position develops and maintains a search engine, as well as an API to serve quick search in various huge and rapidly growing advertising-focused datasets through the FreeWheel product, as well as continuing to improve users’ satisfaction with relevance, order, and insights of search results.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering required. Master’s degree highly preferred.
- Ability to write good quality code in Java.
- Work closely with your mentor to deliver projects on time and to the highest standards of quality.
- Understand operational tasks
- Implement software solutions according to FreeWheel engineering standards
- Implement automated unit and integration tests to confirm correctness and prevent regressions
- Participate in code reviews
- Implement appropriate instrumentation and monitoring
- Provide user-friendly documentation
- Ensure delivered software solutions are always up and available
- Implement bug fixes when necessary
- Upgrade components, libraries, infrastructure, etc. as, necessary
- 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.
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
Go Programming Language, Java (Programming Language), Search Engines
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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
0-2 Years
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