Principal Software Engineer

1 day ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Nexverse Full time ₹ 10,00,000 - ₹ 25,00,000 per year

Senior Staff / Lead / Principal Backend Engineer – Ad Exchange

Company:
Nexverse
.ai

Location: Onsite

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience Required: 6+ years in AdTech (Ad Exchanges / Programmatic Advertising)

Level: Senior Staff / Lead / Principal Engineer

About

Nexverse is building a next-generation ad exchange platform that delivers scalable, transparent, and intelligent programmatic advertising solutions. Our mission is to enable publishers and advertisers to achieve higher performance and smarter monetization through cutting-edge technology and AI-driven decisioning.

We are looking for senior engineering leaders who have hands-on experience scaling ad exchanges and can help architect the future of Nexverse's core systems.

What You'll Do

  • Architect and scale backend systems that handle 100K+ RPS with ultra-low latency.
  • Design, implement, and optimize components for auctions, bidding, fraud detection, frequency capping, and real-time reporting.
  • Build fault-tolerant, high-availability services with strict SLAs.
  • Optimize performance for real-time bidding (RTB) protocols and high-throughput pipelines.
  • Collaborate across teams to deliver features such as smart bidding, advanced filtering, and fraud-resistant exchanges.
  • Lead engineering best practices for distributed systems, observability, CI/CD, and scalable architecture.
  • Mentor other engineers and guide technical decision-making.
  • Work with cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes, GCP/AWS/Azure) and high-performance databases (ClickHouse, MySQL, Redis).

What We're Looking For

  • 6+ years of hands-on engineering experience in Ad Exchanges, DSPs, SSPs, or RTB platforms.
  • Strong backend development expertise in Go, PHP, Java, or C++.
  • Proven success building scalable, maintainable, and resilient systems.
  • Deep understanding of OpenRTB protocols, programmatic auctions, and fraud detection systems.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, concurrency, and caching.
  • Familiarity with streaming/data pipelines (Kafka, Flink, Spark) and large-scale analytics (ClickHouse, BigQuery).
  • Strong leadership and mentorship skills; ability to influence technical direction.
  • Bonus: Experience contributing to Prebid, OpenRTB standards, or open-source ad-tech projects.

Why Join Nexverse?

  • Build the core of a high-scale ad exchange from the ground up.
  • Work with industry veterans solving complex programmatic challenges.
  • Ownership of systems that power billions of transactions daily.
  • Competitive compensation and long-term growth opportunities.
  • A culture of innovation, transparency, and engineering excellence.

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