Director, Software Engineering

Company Description

At Fandango, we love movies. From showtimes and ticketing, to engaging content and innovations in movie going- we strive to deliver the perfect movie going experience—anytime, anywhere. And to be the go-to destination for moviegoers, we think it’s all about collaboration. Anyone can build a website or app, but it takes a special group across many disciplines to create an experience that can live across multiple platforms and connected devices. Thanks to an exceptional team, we’re working hard to make Fandango a little bit better every day. Our 30 million (and growing!) online and mobile monthly visitors can now buy movie tickets at over 25,000 screens nationwide and stay for exclusive trailers, our award-winning original video series, movie reviews, celebrity interviews and more. So, if you’re looking to inspire, be inspired and work at the intersection of entertainment and technology look no further than Fandango. Visit Fandango.com/careers for a behind-the-scenes look at Fandango and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news and updates. Fandango is an NBCUniversal Company.

We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

Fandango360 is a marketing data SaaS product used by all major movie studios in Theatrical and Home Entertainment distribution and marketing as well as Fandango's own internal Performance Marketing teams. As a Software Engineering Director, you will lead a team of application engineers and collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, Data Science and business teams to develop critical new features and product enhancements for our end users and stakeholders. Projects will center around developing privacy-safe marketing technology feature enhancements, clean room technology, and using first party data in the most advanced ways available in the digital advertising space today.

Responsibilities:
• Lead the development efforts for the studio insights product offerings for Fandango’s proprietary B2B SaaS platform
• Own internal APIs & external integrations with multiple platforms including major social and ad network platforms
• Architect and identify tradeoffs of various solutions using Big Data technologies with collaboration with Data Engineering teams
• Collaborate with Product & business stakeholders to ensure successful execution and implementation of the product roadmap in support of the company strategy.
• Translate business ideas into technical solutions and provide strategic guidance
• Work with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to enhance models of recommender systems, customer scoring models, NLP models for text as well as deploy traditional machine learning models for Forecasting across all lines of businesses
• Provide leadership, guidance and direction for team
• Work closely with data governance, legal and privacy teams to ensure compliance

Qualifications

Qualifications/Requirements:
• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Deep understanding of current web & API software design patterns and principles
• Experience with Serverless REST API development (AWS Lambda, Cognito, API Gateway)
• Experience with Batch job development and coordination (AWS Batch, Step Functions)
• Experience with Elastic Search, SQL & Database Technologies
• Experience with JavaScript, ES6, Node.js, HTML5 and CSS3
• Understanding of data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Working knowledge of cloud