Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

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 Senior Manager, Software Engineering to join our Beeswax Ad Serving team. The Ad Serving system is the backbone of the Beeswax platform. It listens to billions of ad auctions per day, decides which of our hundreds of customers should participate, and executes complex bidding strategies to provide optimal results, in milliseconds. 

Job Description

• Manage a team of software engineers, providing them with direction, guidance, and opportunities for growth. 

• C++ experience is a huge plus for this position.

• Collaborate with the Beeswax Product Management team to deliver new features to Beeswax customers. 

• Provide guidance on technical architecture, design philosophies, and engineering practices for your team. 

• Drive improvements to Ad Serving software infrastructure. 

• Ensure adherence to deadlines, specifications, and budgets. 

• Review team members’ work to ensure quality to team standards. 

• Provide technical support and training in Ad Serving capabilities. 

• Implement and review employee performance metrics. 

• Stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies. 

 

Job Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

• Communication: Speak, listen, and write in a clear, thorough, and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques. Be transparent.  

• Organization: Set priorities, track work, be transparent.  

• Analyze: Effective at looking at data to inform an approach or decision.   

• Creativity: Develop new and unique ways to improve operations of the organization and to create new opportunities.  

• Lead: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness. Positively influence others to achieve results in the organization's best interest.  

• Plan: Determine strategies to move the organization forward, set goals, create, and implement action plans, and evaluate the process and results.   

• Solve Problems: Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.  

 

Working conditions  

The Senior Manager, 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 or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 

• Proficient in building distributed applications using object-oriented languages such as C++, Java, Rust, or Go. 

• Experience in deploying and operating applications in a public cloud provider. 

• Proficient in Jira, Confluence, Git, and MS Office products. 

Core Responsibilities

• Oversees the planning and designing of software and web applications, including new programs, enhancements and modifications.
• Provides guidance to the Software Engineering team and other departments in identifying product and technical requirements. Serves as primary point of contact and liaison between Software Engineering and other teams.
• Directs implementation initiatives for new software products and applications. Organizes software update process for existin