Software Developer

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox Corporation

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Duties :

Fox Cable Network Services, LLC seeks a Software Developer (Senior Software Engineer, Ads Engineering), responsible for building back end services in the ad-tech space to help acquire users and fuel FOX’s growth. Specific duties include: 1) Write performant Scala code to assist the team in building up FOX’s proprietary solution for automating user acquisition efforts at scale. 2) Write Scala code to surface data and metrics from FOX’s proprietary solution. 3) Write SQL code as needed to transform this data into useful insights which can be used to optimize FOX’s user acquisition campaigns. 4) Deploy software components inside FOX’s Kubernetes-based engineering ecosystem. 5) Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and handle outages to ensure a high up time of the overall platform. 6) Initiate and participate in efforts to adjust and evolve the software architecture of FOX’s proprietary solution for automating user acquisition efforts at scale. 7) Evaluate tools and frameworks in the Scala ecosystem which can benefit FOX’s software architecture. 8) Participate in code and architecture reviews with the team. Telecommuting permitted from any location in the U.S.

Job Requirements :

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field, plus five (5) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate software development or related software engineering experience including building reliable production backend applications across the full software development life cycle; writing high quality code; and distributed systems and functional programming.

*Specific skills: Also requires experience or knowledge in the following: 1)Knowledge of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Scala; 2) Knowledge of web-based applications using or gRPC; 3) Knowledge of Concurrency, mobile ecosystem and reactive systems; 4) Knowledge of SQL and noSQL; 5) Experience in Ad tech, mar-tech or growth tech domain; 6) Experience with Akka, Kubernetes, Linux and Spark; and 7) Experience working with cross-functional teams.

*Any level of experience or knowledge in the specific skills is acceptable.

Telecommuting permitted from any location in the U.S.

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