Sr Software Engineer, Ad platform

Position Summary

About the team:
The Ad Experience team builds the products that greet every Samsung user the moment they turn on their TV – including Samsung's home screen and the TV Plus app. Our work ships to hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. We build Smart TV applications on the Samsung Tizen platform, where performance isn't optional. These apps run on web-based runtimes with tight memory budgets, constrained CPUs, and hardware that spans a wide range of model years and price points.

Thriving here means understanding those constraints deeply and building software that is fast, resilient, and consistent across the entire device ecosystem.

• 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.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• Typically requires a minimum of 8+ years of related experience and a bachelor’s degree, or 6+ years and a Master's degree, or a PhD with 4+ of experience.
• Deep proficiency in Ruby, GraphQL, Golang, React.
• 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.

• Experience in Ad technologies such as RTB, DSP, Ad exchange, and Ad network.
• Experience in client Ad technologies such as Google AdSense, Google Mobile Ads SDK.

Compensation for this role, for candidates based in Mountain View, CA is expected to be between $210,000 ~ $250,000 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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