Software Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, comprised of FreeWheel Publishers, FreeWheel Markets, and FreeWheel Advertisers empowers all segments of The New TV Ecosystem. We are structured to provide the full breadth of solutions the advertising industry needs to achieve their goals. We power the technology, data enablement, and convergent marketplaces required to ensure buyers and sellers can transact across all screens, across all data types, and all sales channels, in order to ensure the ultimate goal results for marketers. With offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris, Beijing, and across the globe, FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, stands to advocate for the entire industry through the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video.

The Blockgraph imitative is an incubation effort driven by Comcast's FreeWheel division, aimed at establishing the first ever industry-wide identity layer for the media, TV and video ecosystem.BlockGraph is hiring a Software Engineer in New York City to help build our technology platform. Blockgraph is a decentralized identity and insights platform built using distributed systems and blockchain technology. We have been featured in Business Insider, AdWeek, AdExchanger, and CoinTelegraph among others. We are working with the biggest names in media, TV and advertising and are only getting started.

Why work for Blockgraph?

* First Ad-Tech Peer to Peer Enterprise network
* Blockchain for ledger/accounting
* First open data platform to share/use data across all media channels
* Platform as a service (PaaS) model
* Distributed and microservice architecture
* Fast paced startup culture backed by power of Comcast/Freewheel and other leading media giants
* Exposure to advanced cryptography and algorithms

About the Role:

* Development of a massively scaled, cloud native P2P platform
* Full stack feature development on top of the data platform
* Build automation testing for infrastructure and platform

Requirements for the position:

* Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or similar field of study
* 2+ years of full-stack software engineering experience building micro-service applications
* Excellent programming skills in one of the following: Java, Golang, C++
* Experience in SQL or NoSQL database
* Excellent data structures and algorithms skills
* Detail oriented, flexible in the way that a startup requires, comfortable in a very collaborative and team-oriented environment
* Strong analytical thinking skills and results driven personality

Optional / nice to have one or more of the following (these are not required):

* Experience or interest in blockchain technology or cryptography
* Experience, interest or industry knowledge of advertising technology e.g. ad servers, SSPs, DSPs, DMPs etc.
* Experience with CI/CD like Jenkins
* Experience in cloud technologies and distributed systems

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