Senior Full Stack Engineer, Planning

StackAdapt Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Engineer, where you will be instrumental in developing a cutting-edge advertising platform. This role offers the chance to work with a diverse tech stack, including GoLang, Ruby on Rails, and React, while collaborating with talented teams across the organization. You will have the opportunity to mentor others, tackle technical challenges, and contribute to innovative solutions that drive impactful results. Embrace a flexible work culture that values creativity and supports your career growth, all while making a real difference in the digital advertising landscape.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

RRSP/401K matching

3 weeks vacation + personal care days

Access to mental health care platform

Full benefits from day one

Work from home reimbursements

Global WeWork membership

Robust training and onboarding program

Support for personal development initiatives

Awesome parental leave policy

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in web applications with a focus on UX.
• Strong knowledge of full-stack technologies preferred.

Responsibilities

• Advise on technical approaches to enhance engineering excellence.
• Plan and architect scalable web APIs and backend systems.

Skills

Web Application Development

Collaboration with Product & Design

Performance Optimization

Test-Driven Development

Problem-Solving

Mentoring

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GoLang

Ruby on Rails

React

GraphQL

AWS

Typescript

Job description

StackAdapt is a self-serve advertising platform that specializes in multi-channel solutions including native, display, video, connected TV, audio and in-game ads. We empower thousands of digitally-focused companies to deliver outcomes and exceptional campaign performance every day. StackAdapt was founded with a vision to be more than an advertising platform; it’s a hub of innovation, imagination, and creativity.

Engineering at StackAdapt: As a Senior Engineer at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in the development of our advertising platform, producing production level code that will have a direct impact on the success of our product. You will work with large data sets and have exposure to modern tech stacks around GoLang, Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL and more. StackAdapt’s engineering organization believes in working collaboratively and cross-functionally. You will get the opportunity to work in a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed.

About the Planning Team: The Planning team is focused on building a data-driven planning experience that empowers users to forecast campaigns with precision, ensuring their plans align seamlessly with actual campaign outcomes. We power easier campaign planning with benchmarks and political districts targeting.

StackAdapt is a Remote First company; we are open to candidates located anywhere in North America for this position.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Play a key role in consistently advising the team on pragmatic technical approaches to problems that encourage engineering excellence and developer happiness.
• Structure coherent and iterative actionable plans toward delivering effective solutions across the planning surface.
• Plan ahead by strategically architecting scalable web APIs, component libraries, and backend systems that serve the team roadmap goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from Data Science, Product & Design and other senior engineers across the organization to identify and solve technical challenges that drive impact across teams.
• Advise teams on technical debt consolidation in ways that efficiently service our business needs.
• Mentor the team and lead by example to uphold software development best practices in addition to conducting rigorous code and tech spec reviews.
• Identify bottlenecks and general system-wide performance issues and offer actionable solutions to address them.
• Be a significant individual contributor and a key asset in delivering critical projects that ultimately bring value to our customers.

What You'll Bring to the Table:

• 5+ years of experience 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.
• Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is highly preferred - React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, and Go.
• Extensive experience working with a test-driven approach to writing code with one or more of our core full-stack (or comparable) technologies.
• Experience working with relational databases and key-value stores.
• Experience analyzing, benchmarking, and optimizing web application performance across the entire stack.
• An appetite for unpacking complexity and simplifying it wherever possible.
• Experience working on large scale Ruby on Rails projects.
• Experience working with visualization libraries (graphs and maps) to render large data sets on a modern web application.
• Knowledge of AWS or other equivalent cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Experience in the AdTech industry is a plus.

StackAdapters Enjoy:

• Highly competitive salary.
• RRSP/401K matching.
• 3 weeks vacation + 3 personal care days + 1 Culture & Belief day + birthdays off.
• Access to a comprehensive mental health care platform.
• Full benefits from day one of employment.
• Work from home reimbursements.
• Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office.
• Robust training and onboarding program.
• Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, etc.).
• Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning.
• An awesome parental leave policy.
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture.

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