Senior Backend Engineer, Real-Time AdTech & RTB

Braver IT

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

Braver IT is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build a programmatic advertising platform where latency directly drives ad-buying decisions. You’ll own high-throughput, low-latency services and contribute across OpenRTB-inspired workflows, DSP/SSP integrations, and real-time bidding pipelines.

You should have deep RTB/AdTech experience, strong backend skills in Node.js/TS, Go, Rust, Java or Python, and a pragmatic approach to performance optimization.

Qualifications

  • Senior-level backend experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems.
  • Strong RTB/AdTech background in programmatic advertising.
  • Proficient in Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java or Python and adaptable to new tech.
  • Excellent problem-solving and performance trade-off judgment.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve backend services for real-time ad buying and delivery decisions.
  • Identify bottlenecks and optimize throughput, latency, and reliability.
  • Develop bidding flows and ad integrations, processing bid-stream data.
  • Contribute to technical decisions across performance-critical components.
  • Apply domain knowledge to engineering challenges in programmatic advertising.

Skills

Senior backend engineering experience
RTB / AdTech expertise
Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java or
Performance optimization

Tools

OpenRTB concepts
DSPs/SSPs/ad exchanges
Advertising platforms

Job description

Braver IT is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build a programmatic advertising platform where latency directly drives ad-buying decisions. You’ll own high-throughput, low-latency services and contribute across OpenRTB-inspired workflows, DSP/SSP integrations, and real-time bidding pipelines.

You should have deep RTB/AdTech experience, strong backend skills in Node.js/TS, Go, Rust, Java or Python, and a pragmatic approach to performance optimization.

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