Real-Time AdTech Engineer: AI-Powered Bidding & Traffic

Nexxen; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexxen in Bellevue, WA is seeking an engineer to own the real‑time bidding stack from the bidder code path to the analytics bridge. You will work on data at scale and apply ML insights to power near‑instant decisions in a high‑throughput ad exchange environment.

You’ll need strong backend skills, fluency in SQL, and comfort using AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining performance and correctness. Competitive compensation and full benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience writing 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 and work with large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Develop the real‑time bidder (Node.js) and the throttling layer with near‑zero latency.
• Build the data pipeline that aggregates traffic and feeds the analytics/driver for live decisions.
• Apply ML models to rank features and turn findings into real‑time rules for the bidder.

Skills

Backend programming

Distributed systems

SQL

AI tooling

Code review

Tools

Claude Code

Copilot

ChatGPT

Job description

Nexxen in Bellevue, WA is seeking an engineer to own the real‑time bidding stack from the bidder code path to the analytics bridge. You will work on data at scale and apply ML insights to power near‑instant decisions in a high‑throughput ad exchange environment.

You’ll need strong backend skills, fluency in SQL, and comfort using AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining performance and correctness. Competitive compensation and full benefits are offered.