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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer - AdTech Bidding Platform / Traffic Shaping Specialist - **Company:** Nexxen Inc - **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Big Data, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Node.Js, SQL Databases, Spoofing, Production Code, Data Pipelines - **Published:** July 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2cf6cdfe776942e4 ## About the Role * Are a strong generalist, comfortable being dropped into an unfamiliar system and figuring it out. * Can write and reason about production code, with careful attention to performance and correctness. * Have expertise in at least one backend programming language and distributed systems. * Are fluent in SQL, or eager to become fluent, and like working with large datasets. * Ask "why is this like this?" and keep pulling the thread until it makes sense. ## Description Flexible advertising, unified by data. Nexxen empowers advertisers, agencies, publishers and broadcasters around the world to utilize data and advanced TV in the ways that are most meaningful to them. Our flexible and unified technology stack comprises a demand-side platform ("DSP") and supply-side platform ("SSP"), with the Nexxen Data Platform at its core. Why join the Nexxen team? With a global footprint, you can be part of a team that is transforming advertising through our creative, flexible and unified solutions. Employees hustle, commit and dedicate themselves to pillars that make up the Nexxen Way - the 3Cs - Customer Centric, Curious Mindset, Collaborative with No Ego. Important Notice from Nexxen: Your Safety Matters At Nexxen, we care about the well-being of our current and future employees. We are aware of the growing number of online scams and fraudulent job postings, and we urge all job seekers to remain vigilant. Please be advised that Nexxen will never request payment (whether in cash, cryptocurrency, or any other form) as a condition of employment, offer positions that require you to invest in vague or dubious financial schemes, or promote roles that resemble get-rich-quick opportunities. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Nexxen or encounter a questionable job posting associated with our name, please contact us at infosec@nexxen.com to verify its legitimacy. Your trust is important to us. Stay safe and informed. Nexxen Fraud Alert and Notice: Protect Yourself from Impersonation and Fraudulent Activity What this is 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. You will not have done all of this before. We care that you learn fast, reason from first principles, and want to understand why a system behaves the way it does. This role expects AI fluency. Directing AI tools well is core to how we work here. A lot of what we build, from data exploration to model code, is done by steering AI and rigorously checking its output. If that's already how you operate, you'll fit right in. If it's not, this isn't the role for you. 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