The Advertising Platform team at Hulu’s Santa Monica location is looking for a strong Staff Software Engineer who will help us design and rebuild our next-generation ad serving platform.
Hulu runs one of the largest proprietary video ad serving systems on the Internet, with thousands of advertisers and billions of ads served per month.
Our ad server makes thousands of decisions per second to optimize the value of each impression for both our advertisers and our viewers.
In addition to the ad server, our advertising platform includes a set of front-end tools where our advertising and other business partners configure rules related to advertiser and content partners that determine (among other things) where, how many, and what type of advertising to show our viewers.
Our systems connect to and interact with a sophisticated network of both internal and external systems including Hulu’s consumer-facing applications, 3rd party ad systems, and data and financial systems.
Responsibilities: As a Front-End Software Developer within the Ad Applications team, you will: Design and lead implementation on projects to enhance and extend Hulu’s existing ad serving platform Lead and influence system and application design to improve the interaction between ad serving systems and the rest of Hulu’s service and client infrastructure Coach and mentor other engineers on the team to collaboratively build and ship the highest quality software Identify and drive improvements in engineering best practices across the Ad Platform team to ensure industry-leading system quality and team efficiency Build beautiful and accessible user interfaces in partnership with our Enterprise User Experience team Partner with the Product and Advertising teams to understand their business needs and design unique and effective solutions that meet them Building features in support of full-stack internal applications Troubleshooting existing features and functionality across systems and services.
Working with other engineering teams to design software solutions.
Basic Qualifications: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience 5+ years of top-tier software development experience; at least 2 years with backend, service-oriented architecture Expertise with core Computer Science fundamentals, including Object-Oriented programming, algorithms, and data structures Experience developing software with one or more industry-leading database platforms, preferably both relational and non-relational systems Familiarity with large-scale distributed system design Great communication and collaboration skills and a team-focused approach towards software development Expert proficiency in at least one widely used JavaScript development framework (React.Js, Vue.Js, Angular, etc.) This is a full-stack position, so you need be well versed in building end-to-end solutions Preferred Qualifications: Experience with server-side programming languages (Java, Python, Go, etc.) Experience with AWS, Docker, and Terraform Additional Information: DISNEYADSALES