As a Software Engineer, you will design, improve, and debug web applications, collaborate with team members, and drive projects end-to-end.
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.
StackAdapt is the no. 1 performing programmatic advertising platform helping brands accelerate customer engagement and acquisition. This state-of-the-art platform is where some of the most progressive work in machine learning meets cutting-edge user experience.
Ranking the highest in performance by G2 Crowd for the fourth time, we're one of the fastest growing companies in Canada and ranks 6th in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 ranking and 23rd in Fast 500 in North America.
We're always keeping an eye out for talented developers as we build cutting edge software. The digital advertising industry is riddled with interesting challenges as we continue to scale out our platform with a fast growing list of customers. Our technologies include Ruby on Rails, React, Typescript, GraphQL, Redis, Amazon Redshift, and others. This position is open to remote candidates in North America.
About the Team:
This team is a specialized, cross-functional squad of highly skilled engineers deployed to tackle high-impact “quick wins” and quality-of-life improvements across the platform. Trained in multiple product domains and technical areas, this team operates with speed, precision, and autonomy to eliminate friction points, address user pain, and accelerate value delivery where it’s most needed.
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StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in North America for this position.
What You'll be Doing:
- Unique to this team are opportunities to work directly with users and drive projects to completion end-to-end
- Design, improve, and debug complex, scalable distributed systems.
- Write extensible, scalable and test-driven code.
- Take part in sprint planning and architectural decision-making.
- Collaborate with team members on designing scalable, well tested, and well documented web architecture, including APIs and backend systems. As an engineer, you are expected to take responsibility and ownership of projects from start to finish.
- Contribute to code reviews and technical spec reviews.
What We are Looking For:
- 2+ years of full-time work experience building highly performant web applications.
- Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is highly preferred - React, Typescript, Redux, Ruby on Rails etc.
- Experience with implementing a client-facing project end-to-end, from design to delivery.
- Strong understanding of scalable system design for web-based APIs (GraphQL, gPRC or REST) and backend processing systems.
- Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences.
- Experience working on large scale Ruby on Rails / GraphQL projects a plus
- Basic knowledge of AWS or other equivalent cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, etc.).
- Experience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application page load performance across the entire stack.
- Experience with the AdTech industry is a plus.
StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.
About StackAdapt
We've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. We've been awarded:
Ad Age Best Places to Work 2024
G2 Top Software and Top Marketing and Advertising Product for 2024
Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2023 for the UK
2024 Best Workplaces for Women and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Top Skills
Amazon Redshift
AWS
GraphQL
React
Redis
Ruby On Rails
Typescript
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