Solutions Engineer Facebook London

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At Facebook, Solutions Engineers are creative problem solvers who strive to reconcile business challenges using various technologies to create effective marketing solutions. This unique role is part of a small client facing engineering team working with Businesses, Marketing Partners & Agencies across Europe to help integrate Facebook in their products and services.

Solutions Engineers embed themselves in the businesses of their partners providing technical consultation on various Facebook technologies related to Advertising, Pages, Platform & Mobile. The teams sits at the crossroads between various organizations like core engineering, product & marketing helping facilitate communication but also helping bring ideas from the market to life. This niche team has become a critical function at Facebook, not only to ensure the success of our partners on the platform but also to prototype opportunities we identify whilst interacting with clients. Collaborating deeply with clients to solve difficult problems, you will help build solutions to achieve business objectives such as performance marketing and brand awareness.

Last year, Solutions Engineers contributed hundreds of thousands of lines of code to the Facebook codebase helping improve its marketing platform. Solutions Engineers are Software Engineers with a strong passion for partner interaction and a good sense of business, striving to help advertisers become better marketers. They contribute to creating delightful experiences for consumers making marketing more relevant and effectively driving more business for their clients.

Competitive Salary including the following benefits apply: Medical Benefits, Dental Benefits, Vision Benefits, Pension Benefits, Life Assurance, Ride2Work, Childcare Benefits, Gym Benefits, Transport benefits, Laundry Benefit.

Paid Time Off (PTO): 25 Paid vacation days per year

Posted: 8th of June 2016. Closing date: 6th of July 2016.
Responsibilities

Hands on coding for ~50% of time in a variety of languages, primarily C/C++ and PHP
Deeply understand the Business ecosystem, identify problems and solutions for Businesses
Build technical expertise in Facebook products including Ads API, Pages, Platform and provide consultative guidance to Businesses and ecosystem
Manage relationship with product teams & decision makers at businesses
Help launch products including supporting Alpha and Beta programs
Handle support escalations
Requirements

BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree/experience
Previous experience as a software engineer, solutions architect or partner/sales engineer
Deep understanding of the full web technology stack and/or mobile (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, RESTful API)
Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to a technical and business audiences
Solid software development skills with experience building software developed in (at least one) Python, PHP, C/C++, Ruby, C# or Java
Proficient in a Unix/Linux environment
Willingness and ability to travel approximately 20% of time
The ideal candidate will already have a good understanding of the Facebook APIs, ad tech, and experience building mobile apps
Fluency in a second language would be an advantage

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