1 month ago
Base Salary
$175k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize the Node.js real-time bidder that decides which requests to forward to demand partners.
- Build and maintain the near-zero-latency throttling layer that acts on bidder decisions.
- Create the job that aggregates traffic performance and produces the throttle layer connecting analytics with the live bidder.
- Query and analyze billions of bid requests and impressions using SQL.
- Apply interpretable gradient-boosted models to rank traffic features that predict bidding and translate findings into real-time rules.
- Write and reason about production code with strong attention to performance and correctness.
- Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, or ChatGPT while critically reviewing their output.
Requirements
- Strong generalist capable of learning unfamiliar systems and reasoning from first principles.
- Production programming experience with expertise in at least one backend programming language and distributed systems.
- Fluency in SQL or willingness to become fluent, with comfort working with large datasets.
- Experience in one or more of AdTech/RTB, real-time or low-latency systems, columnar databases, A/B testing, or ML tooling is preferred but not required.
- Fluent use of AI coding assistants as a serious part of the software development workflow.
- Curiosity, fast learning, and a focus on understanding system behavior, performance, and correctness.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance.
- 401(k) plan and employee assistance program.
- Parental leave, unlimited vacation, and company-paid holidays.
- Hybrid Bellevue, Washington work arrangement with three days in the office and remote work for the remainder.
- Exempt full-time position.
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About Nexxen
Nexxen builds programmatic advertising technology—a DSP, SSP, and data platform—used by brands, agencies, and publishers to plan, buy, and monetize TV/CTV and digital video. The public company earns media-buying and platform fees and operates across North America, Europe, and APAC. Headquartered in New York, it is listed in London and focuses on data-driven campaigns across converged media.