Lead/Principal Go Developer (AdTech)

- Design and implement core Back-End services for real-time bidding, optimization, and ad delivery workflows - Build custom bidding agents for real-time bid decisioning - Develop high-load, low-latency components supporting real-time auction and delivery mechanics - Implement proprietary pacing, bid-shading, and optimization logic to improve campaign efficiency - Design and integrate forecasting capabilities for impressions, reach, outcomes estimation, and campaign planning - Work with OpenRTB, JSON, protobuf, and other ad-tech protocols and data formats - Integrate with data and metrics pipelines to support real-time optimization and reporting - Implement observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting capabilities (LGTM/ELK stack) - Collaborate with product, engineering, data, and ad operations stakeholders to deliver scalable performance advertising capabilities - At least 7 years of relevant experience as a Back-End Developer in commercial projects - Strong production experience with Golang - Experience designing and building high-load, low-latency distributed systems - Hands-on experience with JSON-based integrations, protobuf or similar protocols - Experience with low-latency data stores and caching technologies such as Aerospike, Redis, ElastiCache or similar - Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases - Experience building production-grade services with strong reliability, scalability and observability requirements - Ability to work independently, reason through complex system trade-offs and contribute to architecture decisions - At least an Upper-Intermediate level of English WILL BE A PLUS- Understanding of real-time bidding systems, auction mechanics and AdTech domain - Understanding of pacing, bid optimization, forecasting or performance advertising delivery mechanics - Experience working on DSP, SSP, Ad Exchange, ad server or performance marketing platforms - Experience with integration of LGTM/ELK or similar observability stacks PERSONA…

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