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Senior Software Engineer

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Nexxen logoNexxen · San Carlos, CA
Full-timeOn-site1mo ago
AgileCapacity PlanningIncident ResponseJavaObservabilityREST
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Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior engineer on a talented team building critical, high-performance, largescale services for Nexxen DSP programmatic integrations and platform products
  • Independently transform vague business requirements into simple, well-reasoned
  • technical designs and drive them from concept through production
  • Partner closely with the Product team, the Engineering Manager, and cross-functional teams
  • stakeholders to shape requirements, scope, and roadmap
  • Take full ownership of complex initiatives, end-to-end design, implementation,
  • integration, rollout, and post-launch operation
  • Write solid, testable, and performant code for services supporting high throughput and
  • low latency ( - Set the technical bar through code reviews and pair programming, inspiring mid- and
  • junior-level engineers to write simple, testable, and performant code by example
  • Mentor and uplevel teammates; act as a force multiplier for the broader engineering
  • organization
  • Apply an SRE mindset to production deployments-observability, on-call readiness,
  • incident response, capacity planning, and continuous reliability improvements
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems that
  • process billions of transactions per day with strict SLAs
  • Drive increased test, monitoring, and automation coverage across services, including
  • automated acceptance testing
  • Collaborate on technical design across teams and contribute to architectural decisions
  • for the DSP platform
  • Explore and prototype the application of emerging technologies, especially AI, to solve
  • technical and AdTech problems
  • Operate within Agile / DevOps practices in a fast-paced environment where you can
  • quickly see the results of your work
  • Lead and participate in planning, grooming, and architectural review sessions with the
  • team and stakeholders

Requirements

  • Expert Java engineer with 7+ years building backend systems at scale
  • In-depth knowledge of the JVM ecosystem, including garbage collection, profiling, and
  • tuning to achieve low latency and high throughput
  • Strong grounding in distributed computing-REST APIs, fault tolerance, scalability,
  • consistency, and resilience
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and systems design fundamentals
  • Proven ability to independently turn ambiguous business problems into simple,
  • pragmatic technical designs
  • SRE mindset: you take ownership of what you ship and care deeply about reliability,
  • observability, and operational excellence in production
  • Track record of code review and technical mentorship that raises the bar for mid- and
  • junior-level

Benefits

Paid time offRemote work optionsFlexible schedule

Additional Information

Who is Nexxen? 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 The Senior Software Engineer will join the Nexxen DSP Software Development team as a senior technical contributor and trusted leader on mission-critical, high-throughput services. Our DSP processes billions of real-time transactions a day with strict sub-100ms SLAs, so performance, scalability, and operational excellence will guide every project you take on. You will independently translate ambiguous business problems into simple, robust technical designs, raise the engineering bar through code review and mentorship, and champion the application of the latest technologies, including AI, to solve hard AdTech problems. This role will be based in our San Carlos local office. Our team follows a hybrid schedule, working in the office three days a week and remotely for the rest.


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