Senior Software Engineer - AdTech Bidding Platform / Traffic Shaping Specialist

The role

You will work across the full stack of a high-throughput ad exchange. This includes the Node.js bidder, data pipelines, SQL analysis, and machine-learning models to optimize traffic.

What you will do

• Work across the whole stack of a live, high-throughput ad exchange
• Manage the Node.js bidder making real-time decisions
• Manage the throttling layer that acts on decisions with near-zero latency
• Aggregate traffic performance to bridge analytics and the live bidder
• Use SQL over billions of bid requests and impressions to feed research
• Apply gradient-boosted models to rank request features
• Turn machine learning findings into real-time rules for the bidder
• Direct AI tools to build data exploration and model code

Required qualifications

• Strong generalist comfortable figuring out unfamiliar systems
• Can write and reason about production code with attention to performance and correctness
• Expertise in at least one backend programming language and distributed systems
• Fluent in SQL, or eager to become fluent
• AI fluency to direct AI tools and critically review output

Nice to have

• Experience in AdTech / RTB
• Experience in real-time or low-latency systems
• Experience in columnar databases
• Experience in A/B testing
• Experience in ML tooling

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• disability insurance
• 401(k)
• EAP
• parental leave
• unlimited vacation
• company-paid holidays

About the company

Nexxen values differences, varied experiences, and collective contribution.