Lead Architect for Samsung Ads Project

About our Team

We seek a highly skilled and motivated Architect to join our growing Samsung Ads team. As an Architect, you will be responsible for designing our ad-serving software, while talking to key stakeholders, either business or technical. Your expertise will play a crucial role in driving the success of our advertising technology, helping us to build modern and effective systems which we will use to deliver targeted ads to our users.

Samsung Ads is a highly successful and fast-growing business for over last six years. This business and its continued future success depend on the products, technologies, and tools owned by Samsung. Hundreds of people strong, with a substantial presence in five countries, Samsung Ads team is a dynamic and complex organization operating across a broad spectrum of product and strategic domains

Join our team and play a key role in shaping the future of our ad tech platform. If you're passionate about building cutting-edge advertising solutions and have a solid background in architecture design, we would love to hear from you!

Role and 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

Technologies in use

• AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, ECS, ECR)
• Ruby and Ruby on Rails (RoR)
• GoLang
• React with TypeScript
• Kubernetes
• SnowFlake
• Kafka
• Apache Airflow
• and many others…

Skills and Qualifications

• 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

Nice to have

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

We offer

• Team:
• Friendly working atmosphere
• Wide range of trainings 
• Opportunity to work in multiple projects
• Multidisciplinary and multicultural team 
• Working with the latest technologies on the market
• Monthly integration budget
• Possibility to attend local and foreign conferences
• Equipment:
• Laptop and PC workstation + 2 external monitors
• Benefits:
• Private medical care (possibility to add family members for free)
• Multisport card
• Life insurance
• Lunch card
• A partial reimbursement of the cost of an English language course
• Possibility to learn Korean for free
• Variety of discounts (Samsung products, theaters, restaurants)
• Unlimited free access to Copernicus Science Center for you and your friends
• Possibility to test new Samsung products
• Location:
• Office in Warsaw Spire near metro station
• Attractive relocation package
• Working in a hybrid model – 3 days from the office per week