Requirements

Expected technologies

Golang

Java

Python

Rust

C

C++

Optional technologies

AdTech

Our requirements

• Overall 15 years of experience with 10 years of experience as a Principal, CTO, Architect or similar experience
• Concurrently, or prior to your architecture experience, a minimum of 3 years working as a software engineer with expertise in at least 2 programming languages such as: Golang, Java, Python, Rust, C/C++ or similar
• Strong expertise across broad computer science fundamentals: Hardware, operating systems, software, data structures, and networking
• Demonstrated experience leading teams, including growing teams, developing rising talent, and creating a supportive and exciting environment with an ability to communicate technical vision
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing architecture for a large global product
• Excellent English communication skills with the ability to multiplex and translate low-level engineering-facing details and high-level product-facing attributes; French is an asset
• Comfortable presenting and obtaining consensus using multiple methods: Written diagrams and text, in-person meetings, in-person and remote presentations, including occasional cross-office travel
• Hands-on experience and comfort with classical Software Development Life Cycle
• Hands-on experience with modern SDLC tooling including source control, reviewing, CI, and CD
• Good track record of making things better, questioning and improving the status quo
• Able to prioritize tasks and resolve problems in a timely manner with an extremely high level of attention to detail
• Work autonomously and multi-task in a fast-paced environment

Optional

• Experience in AdTech
• Strong examples of data-driven decision making

Your responsibilities

• Build and hire a strong architecture team
• Curate and communicate the key architecture pillars that apply to all architecture engineering for Samsung Ads
• Develop technical blueprints for Samsung Ads platforms - application architecture, API interfaces, microservices, backend data processing, and reporting
• Architecting, with the team, new features and components based on product and internal requirements, with the appropriate mix of top-down declaration and bottom-up collaboration
• Analyzing and constructively critiquing architectures and designs by peers
• Constant pruning and steering: analyzing current versus ideal states, detailing GAPs, and re-architecting existing components to address growth/performance/scalability challenges, including migration and change management
• Research and evaluation of best-of-breed technologies to inform architecture decisions, especially build-vs-buy and cost/benefit analysis
• Maintaining up-to-date architecture documentation and flows as it relates to components, data, and their interdependencies
• Providing consultancy and guidance to engineering teams as they build and/or evaluate components
• Provide consultancy to engineers during component testing and productization to ensure fidelity against agreed-on architecture and acceptance criteria
• Providing consultancy and guidance to non-engineering teams, such as product, privacy, and governance, regarding component and data behaviors and characteristics
• Participate in internal training to improve knowledge of both existing components and general architecture best-practices