FreeWheel, a Comcast company, has superior end-to-end technology, premium marketplace, and best in market advisory services that power the advertising businesses of the largest media and entertainment companies in the world, including AOL, DIRECTV, Fox, NBC Universal, Turner Broadcasting System and Viacom in U.S., and Sky and Channel 4 in Europe. From our unique position at the center of the premium video economy, we enable our clients to unify audiences across desktop, mobile, OTT, and traditional STB devices, and profitably monetize their content.  Headquartered in San Mateo, with offices in New York, London, and Beijing, FreeWheel stands to advocate for the entire industry through the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video.

Job Summary:

Responsible for planning and designing new software and web applications. Analyzes, tests, and assists with the integration of new applications. Oversees the documentation of all development activity. Trains non-technical personnel. Assists with tracking performance metrics. Provides guidance and support to other Engineers. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Collaborates with project stakeholders to identify product and technical requirements. Conducts analysis to determine integration needs.

  • Designs new software and web applications, supports applications under development, and customizes current applications. Develops software update processes for existing applications. Assists in the roll-out of software releases.

  • Trains junior Software Development Engineers on internally developed software applications.

  • Oversees the researching, writing, and editing of documentation and technical requirements, including software designs, evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals, and formal recommendations and reports.

  • Keeps current with technological developments within the industry. Monitors and evaluates competitive applications and products. Reviews literature, patents, and current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.

  • Assists with technical leadership throughout the design process and assists in guidance with regards to practices, procedures, and techniques. Serves as a guide mentor for Software Development Engineers.

  • Assists in tracking and evaluating performance metrics. Ensures team delivers software on time, to specification, and within budget.

  • Works with Quality Assurance team to determine if applications fit specification and technical requirements. Tests and evaluates systems, subsystems, and components.

  • Acts as a technical contact and liaison for outside vendors and/or customers.

  • Presents and defends architectural, design, and technical choices to internal and external audiences.

  • Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.

  • Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.

  • Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Job Specification:

  • 10+ years of detailed hands on troubleshooting experience of a complex large-scale enterprise application server environment.

  • AWS Services (EC2, ELB, Elastic Cache Cluster, DynamoDB, Kinesis, AutoScaling, SNS, Route 53, Lambda, API Gateway, OpsWorks, Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, IAM with Cross account policies, AWS CLI)

  • Well-developed communications skills and customer-centric attitude

  • Understanding of Big Data environments like Hadoop

  • Solid understanding of application servers and services including JAVA based application server environments.

  • 10+ Years hands-on administration in a RHEL-based Linux environment.

  • Basic knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL and Oracle), including the ability to run basic queries.

  • Experience with configuration management tools is a plus (Salt stack, Puppet, Chef).

  • Experience with setting up and configuring Nagios is a plus.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer

Desired Skills and Experience