Senior Front End Software Engineer - Ad Experiences

Job Description

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.

Summary

Join our team as Senior Front-End Software Engineer and work on developing ad framework components for our various ad products. You will contribute to design, architecture, building, deploying, and maintaining multiple client-side components (JavaScript) for ad monetization and measurement stack. This role is 100% hands-on development and focuses on software architecture and engineering best practices. You will work with experienced, passionate programmers as part of the full-stack team within a broader engineering organization with a strong technical culture.

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
• As a senior member, you will mentor other team members on engineering best practices, enforce code review guidelines, and support the team through the product lifecycle.
• Drive quality by reviewing code by peers and spreading your expertise to the team, emphasizing unit testing.
• 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 minimum 6 years of related experience and a Bachelor's degree, or 4 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 2 years of experience
• At least 3 years proven experience as a JavaScript/Front-End Engineer in Ad Tech or a related industry.
• Experience building Javascript framework and libraries for consumer facing devices with low memory footprints focusing on application performance.
• 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.
• Strong fundamental experience with Astro, Node.JS, React
• Expert level Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Passion for building reliable "done right the first time" web applications.
• A self-directed team player.

Not Required but

• Experience building Micro Front-end applications with Module Federation
• Experience working on API development using backend (Java,Golang,Ruby)
• Experience building a library of reusable components.
• Experience with Material UI
• Experience with Storybook

CALIFORNIA ONLY

Salary Range Pay Transparency: Compensation for this role, for candidates based in Mountain View, CA is expected to be between $175,000 and $190,000. 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.