Software Engineer 5 - Ads Finance

Netflix Netflix · Big Tech · Los Gatos, CA +2 · Engineering

Software Engineer 5 for Netflix's Ads Finance team, focusing on building the ads billing and invoicing system. This role involves developing financial and payment solutions within the advertising technology ecosystem, with an emphasis on revenue recognition, invoicing, and compliance with SOX requirements. Experience with ML is a plus, but not core to the role.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and maintain the ads billing and invoicing system, acting as a transaction sub-ledger for the ads platform.
  2. Build highly performant advertising systems and deliver high impact to the business by monetizing content.
  3. Develop workflows for revenue recognition, invoicing, and report exchanges with DSPs.
  4. Manage financial transactions and revenue tracking in the advertising domain.
  5. Ensure accurate billing and strict adherence to regulatory standards, including finance compliance, audit, and SOX requirements.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of hands-on, software engineering experience in building business-critical, reliable, and distributed systems
  • Background in building financial or payment solutions
  • Proven expertise in developing workflows for revenue recognition, invoicing, and report exchanges with DSPs
  • Strong understanding of data governance principles for finance data
  • In-depth knowledge of finance compliance, including audit and SOX requirements
  • Developed many cloud-based applications and comfortable with modern programming languages (preferably object-oriented)
  • Familiar with A/B testing and experimentation
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills

Nice to have

  • Experience with ML is a plus
  • Professional experience and interest in revenue advertising solutions, preferably on the sell-side or platform side
  • Understand the modern ad technology ecosystem with a focus on fintech
  • Experience with privacy, compliance, and governance in the advertising space
  • Broad knowledge of ad tech and advertising landscape, programmatic advertising, and digital marketing trends
  • Familiarity with legal compliance and changing landscape of ads regulations around the world
  • Experience working in the CTV space and knowledge of it’s unique constraints

What the JD emphasized

  • business-critical, reliable, and distributed systems
  • financial or payment solutions
  • revenue recognition, invoicing, and report exchanges
  • finance compliance, including audit and SOX requirements