SDE III - Engineering

About the Role:

We’re looking for a high-performing SDE-III with deep backend engineering expertise and strong foundations in data engineering that power the SSP Exchange team – a next-generation, AI-powered engineering platform working towards transforming ourselves into an Omni channel exchange .. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team responsible for designing and delivering mission-critical systems with high performance, reliability, and scale.As part of the engineering team, you will work at the intersection of AI, large-scale systems, and ad tech—developing intelligent experiences that simplify and automate the digital advertising lifecycle.

Who are we and What do we do? 

InMobi is a global provider of enterprise platform for marketers. Our platforms help Marketers reach nearly 1.56 billion unique users through mobile to help them engage, acquire, re-engage, re-market and retain valuable users. InMobi is also India’s first unicorn and one of the only profitable global tech-product companies to emerge out of India. 

 At 20+ offices across the globe, InMobi employs over 1000 personnel constituting 25 nationalities. Acclaimed for its culture, InMobi has consecutively featured on the Great Places to Work (GPTW) list, with a consistent hold in the Top 50 position for the past two years. Moreover, these accolades are not just restricted to India, InMobi has also secured a ranking on the GPTW’s 2017 China List, a notable feat for an Indian startup. 

 InMobi has also regularly featured on world disruptor lists – MIT Technology Review’s 2013 50 Disruptive Companies; Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2016, 2018; CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list of 2018, here InMobi was selected amongst a pool of more than 980 forward-thinking and ambitiou private companies across the globe, we now share this space with the likes of SpaceX, Airbnb, Uber and so on. 

What’s the InMobi family like? 

 We are an infectious bunch. Be it the way we rise up to challenges, the cutting edge products we create, the dreams we chase or the fun we have at work. We are sure that if you meet us, you will be infected too. Today, we are proud to be the leaders in Mobile advertising and are on an accelerated path of being a leader in enterprise software for marketers. We invite you to free yourself, dream big and chase your passion. We are here today because a few of us did just that. 
 

What can we promise? 

We offer you an opportunity to work on building enterprise platforms that require you to acquire, hone and demonstrate your engineering skills in designing and solving for complex problems, thereby creating software that creates value for our customers in a very reliable, scalable, secure and AI-first manner. At InMobi, you get to work on cutting-edge technologies, work closely with business teams and grow as an overall technology leader. 

Modern work environment, flexible schedule and smart, creative, down-to-earth people. Internal opportunities to move roles and try out bridge assignments with different teams.  Food for your soul – free meals all days of the week, gym or Yoga class to flex those biceps, cocktails at drink cart Thursdays and fun at work on Funky Fridays. We even promise to let you bring your kids and pets to work. 

What is the team like?

 
InMobi's Supply and Monetization Platform is one of the world's leading ad serving platforms serving 260bn ad requests a day and handling 2.5+ billion users. Our products help advertisers serve ads optimally, optimize relevance of ads to make the advertiser maximize his ROI, and monitor progress of different advertising campaigns. We handle 7M qps peak traffic for serving ads in milliseconds and manage 2 petabyte-scale data to match the pace of advertising

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop large-scale backend services, APIs, and microservices for high-throughput data systems.

• Build and maintain real-time and batch data pipelines using technologies like Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink, etc.

• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, data analysts and engineers to translate complex requirements into scalable solutions.

• Optimize performance and reliability of distributed systems; ensure low-latency data ingestion and processing.

• Champion code quality, performance, and modern engineering practices (CI/CD, containerization, observability, fault tolerance) and mentor juniors

• Drive architectural decisions, lead technical discussions, and contribute to platform roadmap.

Qualifications:

• 5–8 years of backend engineering experience, preferably in large-scale, high-traffic environments.

• Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, or Go; familiarity with Python for data use cases is a plus.

• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and concurrency.

• Experience with modern data infrastructure (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Airflow,Databricks , Presto, ClickHouse).

• Exposure to cloud-native architecture (GCP/Azure) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).

• Strong problem-solving skills with a bias for action and ownership.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in AdTech, Martech, or E-Commerce domains.

• Exposure to ML model lifecycle: training, serving, monitoring, and feedback loops.

• Prior experience with AI-powered UX: conversational UI, suggestion engines, or personalization.

• Agentic development (e.g., Cursor, LangChain, Windsurf) and building agents for business impact and dev productivity