Sr. Software Engineer- REMOTE

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’s mission is to build great advertising software. We offer the most extensible and transparent advertising buying platform in the world, operating at a massive global scale. We don’t just operate a Demand Side Platform (DSP) – we are the platform that powers hundreds of DSPs! As a result, we process trillions of transactions to satisfy millions of dollars’ worth of advertising campaigns every month. Our employees enjoy a culture of transparency and one with many challenging problems to solve. We value moving fast, building high-quality reliable software, and supporting each other in the service of driving success for our customers’ businesses.

FreeWheel is looking for a data and analysis savvy Senior Software Engineer to join our Beeswax engineering team.  The team is looking for an engineer who can use an abundance of data to help guide the team in making data-driven decisions.

Job Description

Summary

FreeWheel’s mission is to build great advertising software. We offer the most extensible and transparent advertising buying platform in the world, operating at a massive global scale. We don’t just operate a Demand Side Platform (DSP) – we are the platform that powers hundreds of DSPs! As a result, we process trillions of transactions to satisfy millions of dollars’ worth of advertising campaigns every month. Our employees enjoy a culture of transparency and one with many challenging problems to solve. We value moving fast, building high-quality reliable software, and supporting each other in the service of driving success for our customers’ businesses.

FreeWheel is looking for a data and analysis savvy Senior Software Engineer to join our Beeswax engineering team.  The team is looking for an engineer who can use an abundance of data to help guide the team in making data-driven decisions.

Primary Duties

• Be collaborative: communicate with project stakeholders to identify product and technical requirements.
• Be resourceful: Provide answers to vague questions using disparate data sources.
• Be curious: Ask and answer your own vague questions in service of improving the platform for our internal and external customers.
• Be pragmatic: Build tools and dashboards to automatically track and report on relevant information.
• Be forward leaning: Keep current with technological developments within the industry. Monitors and evaluates competitive applications and products. Review literature, patents, and current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.
• Be senior - provide technical leadership throughout the design process and guidance with regards to practices, procedures, and techniques. Serves as a guide and mentor for junior level Software Development Engineers.
• 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.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors, and our communities.

Working conditions 

The Senior Software Engineering must successfully work with team members located in multiple remote locations and time zones. Working conditions agree with conditions described within FreeWheel’s company handbook unless explicitly noted in this document. 

Minimum Qualifications and Requirements

• 5+ years related experience.  Experience in the media or advertising industry is a huge plus.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong SQL knowledge is a mu