Senior Software Engineer - AdTech Bidding Platform / Traffic Shaping Specialist
senior$175K – $200K
via Ashby
About this role
What You'll Do:
Every ad request that hits our exchange runs through a real-time auction: a bidder decides, in milliseconds, whether to ask our demand partners to bid. Much of the traffic doesn’t get bid on, wasting load on both sides. Your job is to make the system smarter about what to send where.
That means you'll work across the whole stack of a live, high-throughput ad exchange: the Node.js bidder making the real-time decisions, the data pipeline that captures what happened, the SQL that turns billions of events into answers, and the machine-learning models that predict which traffic is worth sending. Few engineering roles let one person see a problem from the hot path to the model and back. This one does.
We're hiring for curiosity, not a checklist.…
What we'd score you on
reqspace match rubricFive dimensions, recruiter-grade. Upload your resume and we'll generate a written explanation of where you fit and where the gaps are.
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Skills match
For this role: sql, node.js, claude
2
Level fit
This role is senior-level. We check your trajectory against it.
3
Domain experience
Your work in the role's domain matters more than your years total. We weight recent and direct experience.
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Recency
A skill you used last quarter weighs more than one from five years ago. We grade on recency, not lifetime.
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Location fit
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Skills in this role
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sqlnode.jsclaude