Senior Software Engineer ( Backend)

AdGear (belonging to the Samsung Ads business), is an Advertising Technology Company located in the heart of downtown Montreal. AdGear focuses on enabling brands to connect with Samsung TV audiences as they are exposed to digital media across all devices. Being part of an international company such as Samsung and doing business around the world means that we get to work on big complex projects with stakeholders and teams located around the globe. 

Samsung has developed a proprietary ad platform that leverages unique first-party TV data to help brands connect to their audience as they explore content across desktop, mobile, tablets and our SMART TVs. The Samsung Ad Platform delivers high-quality audience targeting powered by three key components: first-party audience data at scale, data science, and brand-safe cross-device ad inventory.

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Why work in the Ads business?

Let’s face it, the ad industry doesn’t have the best of reputation. It is associated with spam email and annoying 5 seconds delay before you can watch your videos. But let’s face it, Ads are what is paying for all the free videos you are watching and your free social media accounts. Nothing is really free in this world. Why don’t you join a team that works hard to make ads work, respects personal privacy, limits exposure to the same ads, and follows regulations? In a world of bad pun and annoying jingles, AdGear is a good citizen. It also helps that the tech we’re using to build our system is cool.

About Campaign Management

Our group is responsible for delivering ads that are most appropriate for the end-user. We handle ~1,000,000 requests per second. We have a maximum of 100ms to parse an ad bid request, query our databases to find the most appropriate ad for that end-user, decide on our bid price, and respond. With an inventory of ~10,000 ads and campaigns, we need the best mind to optimize this bidding process.

Are you up to the challenge?

About your Role

As a Software Engineer you will be responsible for designing, building, deploying, and maintaining components of a high-volume, distributed real-time bidding platform. This involves measuring and tuning high-performance, low-latency (soft-real-time) systems while working towards improved robustness and correctness. As a consequence, there will be opportunities to contribute to open-source, conduct research and development, review code, participate in shaping our engineering practices, and share knowledge.

You will be working with experienced, passionate software developers as part of the Campaign Management group within a broader engineering organization with a strong technical culture.

You enjoy building things. You value craftsmanship in software. You enjoy reading code, and you're probably in the habit of reading the source for your dependencies. You love collaborating with and mentoring others.

Our tech stack includes a mixture of Erlang, Go, Linux, Concourse, Docker, and Kubernetes.

If you are a great functional programmer. We want to hear from you.

Expectations

As a senior member of the Campaign Management group, we expect you have accumulated experience as a systems programmer and:

• Have experience in multiple programming paradigms including functional programming 
• Have a solid foundation in systems programming, computer science, and software engineering
• Mentor and grow the team through various channels (code review, talks, discussions, etc.)
• Guide the direction of our technology stack to improve performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Maintain and improve existing services which include actively trying to pay back technical debt and extending their functionality
• Participate in the design, implementation, and testing of new services
• Investigate and fix performance issues throughout systems, dependencies, and kernel usage
• Criticize and improve our development processes and methodologies
• Contribute to open-source software to improve our external dependencies
• Flesh out and iterate on requirements in collaboration with the product team
• Get involved in and participate actively to the Scrum ceremonies

While our employees are currently working remotely, and before any return to our beautiful office, we are taking extra care steps to ensure a smooth experience for any new employee joining our wonderful organization. Ask us about our employee perks!

What can you expect for your interview process?

Below is what it looks like from start to finish. Our promise is to keep communication open the entire way so you always know where you stand.

• A 30 min Pre Screen with our fabulous TA team.
• A 1-hour Culture Interview via Webex with our Engineering Manager
  We’ll use this time to simply get to know you as a person and hear more about your work experience
• A 1-hour Technical Screen via Webex.
  We’ll use this time to make sure you possess the minimum skills we think are required to accomplish the key objectives.
• 2 hour meet in-depth Technical Interview or technical test to complete in your home.
  We’ll dig into how you would go about accomplishing the objectives we shared for the role and your past experience doing similar work.
• And finally, the Offer presentation with HR and the Hiring Manager. Welcome to the team!

About AdGear culture…

• We promote autonomy, ownership, and accountability. Everyone is a leader at Samsung Ads, taking initiative with confidence. 
• Our differences make a difference, and we are part of a collaborative team that values different opinions, thoughts, and ideas.
• We conduct ourselves with mutual respect, authenticity, and empathy. We act with thoughtful intention to make the right decisions
• We are dynamic individuals who care about results. We celebrate the hard work and recognize achievements. We love what we do. 
• We embrace the open-source movement and actively support the open source community
• We foster a culture of teamwork and embrace challenges through a creative and innovative approach.