StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
Engineering at StackAdapt:
As an Engineer at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in the development of our platform, producing production-level code that will directly impact on the success of our product. You will work with large data sets and have exposure to modern tech stacks, including technologies like Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and more. StackAdapt’s engineering organization believes in working collaboratively and cross-functionally, and offers a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed.
About the Team:
The Insights team is focused on building platform features that help users analyze their campaign data at scale and surface actionable ideas to improve their campaigns performance. We’ll also integrate our insights feature set into our AI Platform to enable agentic optimization loops and help our users achieve high performance across a wide portfolio of campaigns.
StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada for this position.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Design, improve, and debug complex, scalable distributed systems
- Find solutions to optimize bottle-necks and general system wide performance
- Always on the lookout to keep the tech stack updated with current standards
- Write extensible scalable and test-driven code, and take responsibility and ownership of projects from start to finish
- Collaborate with team members on designing scalable, well tested, and well documented web architecture, including APIs and backend systems
- Contribute to code reviews, technical spec reviews, technical planning, and architectural decision-making
- 5+ years of building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX
- Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences
- Experience working with relational databases and key-value stores
- Experience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application page load performance across the entire stack
- Experience working on large scale Ruby on Rails / Go projects
- Basic knowledge of AWS or other equivalent cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Experience building performant data visualizations and graphs, and leading large scale modernization efforts to revamp legacy systems from start to finish
- [Bonus] Experience integrating and orchestrating APIs with AI and agentic loops
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
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