Staff Software Engineer - Front End (Javascript)

Position Summary

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 and 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 Front-End Staff Software Engineer and work on developing ad framework components for our various ad products. You will contribute to design, architecture, building, deploying, and maintaining various client-side components (JavaScript) for ad monetization and measurement stack. This role is 100% hands-on development along with focus on software architecture and engineering best practices. You will work with experienced, passionate programmers as part of the full-stack team within a broader engineering organization with a strong technical culture.

Role and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Write efficient, clean, readable, fast, testable, documented code.
• Quickly prototype and develop consumer-facing services that will be displayed on millions of devices.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams (Product Managers, UX designers) and other Software Engineers to deliver a compelling easy-to-use product for the end consumers.
• Collaborate with peers and leaders across various sites of Samsung Ads, driving cross-site efforts to improve platform capabilities.
• Effectively communicate ideas to peers and distributed teams.
• Contribute towards building a system with a test-driven development/Agile approach.
• As a senior member, 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.
• Work with geographically distributed teams.
• Work on Technical Proposals to improve the software design and architecture.

Skills and Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10 years or more of proven experience as a JavaScript/front-end engineer in the ad tech or related industry.
• Experience building JavaScript frameworks and libraries for consumer-facing devices with low memory footprints focusing on application performance.
• Strong architectural and design skills.
• Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git) and front-end build tools (e.g., webpack, npm).
• Experience with performance optimization, responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Strong fundamental experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Passion for building reliable "done right the first time" web applications.
• A self-directed team player.

Not required but Preferred

• Experience building Micro Front-end applications with Module Federation.
• Experience building a library of reusable components.
• Experience with Material UI.
• Experience with Storybook.

CALIFORNIA ONLY

Compensation for this role is expected to be between $190,000 and $240,000. 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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