Ascendeum - Associate Backend Engineer - Golang

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About Ascendeum

Ascendeum is a fast-growing AdTech platform powering header-bidding solutions for premium publishers. Were on a mission to deliver the highest-performance, most extensible Prebid Server implementation open, transparent, and battle-tested at scale.

Role Overview

As an Associate Backend Engineer on our Prebid Server team, youll help design, build, and maintain the Go-based microservices that handle billions of real-time auctions every day. Youll work end-to-enddefining APIs, optimising performance, integrating demand partners, and ensuring rock-solid reliability under peak load.

Key Responsibilities

  • Feature Development : Implement new bidding logic modules and extensions in our Go-based Prebid Server.
  • API Design : Define and maintain gRPC/HTTP endpoints and OpenRTB compatible message schemas.
  • Performance & Scaling : Profile auction paths, tune concurrency, and ensure sub-50 ms median response times at hundreds of RPS.
  • Integration : Onboard third-party bidders and adapters; build automated test suites to validate request/response compliance.
  • Reliability & Monitoring : Instrument metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), set up alerts, and drive SLAs on availability (99.9 %+).
  • DevOps & CI/CD : Containerise services (Docker), manage Kubernetes deployments, and author CI pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
  • Code Quality & Collaboration : Participate in design reviews, write clear documentation, and mentor interns or new team members.

Must-Have Qualifications

  • Go (Golang) proficiency : 1-3 years building backend services.
  • Distributed systems knowledge : Concurrency patterns, context propagation, timeouts, circuit breakers.
  • API expertise : gRPC & RESTful design; familiarity with Protocol Buffers.
  • Data stores & messaging : Experience with SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL), NoSQL or cache (Redis), and a message bus (Kafka/NATS).
  • Container & orchestration : Docker, Kubernetes (or equivalent).
  • Monitoring & logging : Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Fluentd or similar.
  • Version Control : Git Workflow Best Practices.
  • Linux skills : Comfortable debugging and deploying on Linux servers.
  • Communication : Strong English skills; can discuss technical trade-offs with product and QA.

Nice-to-Have (but Not Required)

  • AdTech experience : Prebid.js/Server, RTB/OpenRTB, header-bidding concepts.
  • High-throughput tuning : HTTP/2, TLS, connection pooling.
  • Cloud platforms : AWS/GCP services (Lambda, Kinesis, Pub/Sub).
  • Security & compliance : TLS, OAuth, GDPR/CCPA considerations.

Why Join Us

  • Impact at scale : Your code will process millions of auctions daily for top publishers.
  • Learning culture : Regular tech talks, 1:1 mentoring, hack weeks.
  • Lean, empowered team : Small pods, end-to-end ownership, rapid iteration.
  • Flexible work model : Choose in-office or remote, with monthly get-togethers at our Gurugram hub.
  • Competitive compensation : Salary + performance bonus + equity opportunity.
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