Join FreeWheel as a Frontend Engineer, building user-friendly web applications using React and TypeScript, while collaborating with cross-functional teams and participating in code reviews.
FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we're making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
Job Summary
Are you passionate about building fast, intuitive, and beautiful web applications? Join FreeWheel as a Frontend Engineer, where you'll play a key role in creating seamless and high-performing user experiences for our industry-leading enterprise products. In this role, you'll work closely with experienced engineers, product managers, and designers to build features for our enterprise web applications. You'll contribute to user-facing functionality that helps our customers transact across screens, data types, and sales channels - all while gaining hands-on experience in the fast-paced world of video advertising technology.
Job Description
What You'll Do
What you bring
Core Responsibilities
Review and understand requirements.
Develop and debug application code using modern web or mobile or streaming media programming languages and frameworks. Implementation of features.
Use applicable unit testing frameworks to ensure code quality and adequate test coverage.
Apply thoughtful consideration to security, accessibility, privacy, and performance during development.
Establish logging, monitoring and alerting solutions.
Analyze production data to ensure front-ends are optimized for speed, scalability, performance, and security.
Work with operations team to troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
Ensure applications are resilient and highly available.
Keep current with technological developments within the industry.
Ensure application compatibility with upcoming hardware and software updates.
Review literature, patents and current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.
Adhere to company guidelines around security, accessibility, and privacy.
Work independently on features while also participating in architecture and solution design.
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.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
Drive results and growth.
Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer:
This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Skills:
JavaScript; Troubleshooting; React.js
Salary:
Primary Location Pay Range: $93,022.91 - $139,534.36
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Relevant Work Experience
2-5 Years
Job Summary
Are you passionate about building fast, intuitive, and beautiful web applications? Join FreeWheel as a Frontend Engineer, where you'll play a key role in creating seamless and high-performing user experiences for our industry-leading enterprise products. In this role, you'll work closely with experienced engineers, product managers, and designers to build features for our enterprise web applications. You'll contribute to user-facing functionality that helps our customers transact across screens, data types, and sales channels - all while gaining hands-on experience in the fast-paced world of video advertising technology.
Job Description
What You'll Do
- Work with senior developers, product managers, and designers to help build user-friendly web interfaces.
- Write clean, maintainable code using React, TypeScript, and other modern frontend tools.
- Assist in developing and improving frontend features for our enterprise applications.
- Participate in code reviews and learn best practices for building high-quality software.
- Help test and debug your own code and support QA in identifying and fixing issues.
- Contribute to the development of shared UI components and design systems.
- Learn how to integrate frontend features with backend APIs.
- Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies.
- Take ownership of smaller tasks and features with support and guidance from more experienced team members.
What you bring
- 1+ years of professional experience building production-grade web applications.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, and modern web development practices.
- Strong user empathy and product-focused mindset
- Experience working within cross-functional teams in agile environments.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Familiarity with design systems and component-driven development.
Core Responsibilities
Review and understand requirements.
Develop and debug application code using modern web or mobile or streaming media programming languages and frameworks. Implementation of features.
Use applicable unit testing frameworks to ensure code quality and adequate test coverage.
Apply thoughtful consideration to security, accessibility, privacy, and performance during development.
Establish logging, monitoring and alerting solutions.
Analyze production data to ensure front-ends are optimized for speed, scalability, performance, and security.
Work with operations team to troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
Ensure applications are resilient and highly available.
Keep current with technological developments within the industry.
Ensure application compatibility with upcoming hardware and software updates.
Review literature, patents and current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.
Adhere to company guidelines around security, accessibility, and privacy.
Work independently on features while also participating in architecture and solution design.
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.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
Drive results and growth.
Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer:
This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Skills:
JavaScript; Troubleshooting; React.js
Salary:
Primary Location Pay Range: $93,022.91 - $139,534.36
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Relevant Work Experience
2-5 Years
Top Skills
JavaScript
React
Typescript
Comcast Advertising Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, IL, United States, 60603
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