Tech Lead Manager - TV Plus Ad Framework

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, 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.

Join our team as a Tech Lead Director and lead a team responsible for developing an ad framework for our flagship Live / VOD streaming product, TV Plus. You can contribute to designing, architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining various components of high-volume distributed systems. This role perfectly blends team management and hands-on development, focusing on software delivery and engineering aspects. You will work with experienced, passionate programmers as part of the full-stack team within a broader engineering organization with a strong technical culture.

Take advantage of the opportunity to be part of our team and impact the future of streaming technology!

Key Responsibilities

• You have previously led a technical team to deliver full-stack software systems with exceptional quality.
• As a technical lead, 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.
• Provide effective and regular performance feedback to the team members.
• Internal and External Stakeholder Management.
• We are working with geographically distributed teams.
• We are developing Improvement Proposals to improve the software design and architecture.
• This person will set up the technical vision/roadmap for the team.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of Ad Tech would be preferable.
• Have a solid foundation in computer science and knowledge of systems programming.
• Requires a minimum 12 years of related experience and a Bachelor's degree, or 10 years and a Master's degree, or a PhD with 7 years experience

Our tech stack includes a mixture of Erlang, C++, C#, Go, Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with TV streaming and ad stitching (SCTE-35, HLS)
• Distributed systems
• Operating System and Architecture
• Ad Privacy

The salary range for this role, for candidates based in California, is expected to be between $240,000 and $260,000 Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role.

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