Senior Software Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

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

Responsible to provide leadership and executive oversight for all aspects of the Software Engineering for Audience & Measurement department's operation. Specific, strategic focus on the management of Identity including audience targeting, graph, resolution, device relationships/linkages, and (graph-based) data platforms. Partners with Engineering, Product, Revenue Science, Product-Marketing, and Privacy teams to ensure Identity platforms enable accurate, responsive, feature-rich, privacy-compliant (application-level) functionality. Provides leadership and direction across multiple functional areas and maintains fiduciary responsibility for budgets while maximizing the value of enterprise identity data assets

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the design, scalability, and performance of identity graph platforms that resolve and link user identities across devices, channels, and data sources.
• Ensure platforms can ingest, normalize, and process high-volume identity signals (e.g., device IDs, cookies, hashed PII, event streams).
• Partner with peer engineering organizations to enable antecedent application platforms to efficiency leverage Identity assets for the purposes of targeting, data enrichment, and ad serving.
• Develop an approach (for) maintaining high performance and availability of Identity related services; in response to the ever-increasing payloads associated with digital identity (household and individual).
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure scalability, accuracy, and speed during tentpole events.
• Works with project personnel to define standards and frameworks with regards to coding, programming and the general development of applications for multiple platforms.
• Leads the Software Development and Engineering team in the development of new software product/applications, while maintaining continued support for existing applications
• Oversees implementation initiatives, software updates and the launch of new software releases
• Drive the adoption of best practices in system design, data engineering, and machine learning as required for the advancement of the Identity practice.
• Prepares and manages budget(s) and financial targets

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.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills:

Identity Development; Advertising; Innovation

Salary:

Primary Location Pay Range: $156,601.00 - $234,901.50

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

7-10 Years