Staff Software Engineer, Developer Ecosystems

StackAdapt; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Canada is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead technical initiatives and mentor a team of developers. You will develop scalable web APIs and collaborate with various stakeholders to drive impactful solutions. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of experience in web application development and a strong knowledge of full-stack technologies like React and Ruby on Rails. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits are offered in a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Retirement/401K/Pension Savings

Competitive Paid time off packages

Access to mental health care platform

Health benefits from day one

Work from home reimbursements

Global WeWork membership

Robust training and onboarding

Support for personal development initiatives

Access to programmatic courses and certifications

Parental leave program

Supportive culture

Social and team events

Qualifications

• 6 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.
• Experience working with relational databases and key-value stores.

Responsibilities

• Advise the team on technical approaches to encourage engineering excellence.
• Structure actionable plans to deliver effective solutions.
• Mentor the team and uphold software development best practices.

Skills

Web applications development

React

Typescript

GraphQL

Ruby on Rails

Go

Job description

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.About Dev Eco Team:The Developer Ecosystems team at StackAdapt focuses on building and supporting a thriving community of developers who integrate with, extend, and build upon our platform. We achieve this by providing essential tools, comprehensive documentation, and robust APIs, all designed to empower external developers and ensure their success. Our work also involves developing the necessary infrastructure to support our product offerings. We work closely with numerous internal teams to create solutions that benefit our users across various platforms, including our web platform, partner sites, applications, and AI assistants. Additionally, we actively engage with external partner developers, offering guidance and assistance to help them understand and resolve their challenges.About Staff Engineer:We are entering a new chapter in software development – driven primarily by LLMs, more people now can start building solutions. To meet this emerging need, we are significantly increasing our investment in building a best-in-class ecosystem to power the next generation of our agents and MCP tools. As the technical leader, you will collaborate with various feature teams, ML engineers, and infrastructure teams to deliver customer value, and partner with management to establish the technical vision, strategy, and execution.

• Plays a key role in consistently advising the team on pragmatic technical approaches to problems that encourage engineering excellence and developer happiness
• Can structure coherent and iterative actionable plans toward delivering effective solutions across the planning surface
• Plans 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 bottle-necks 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

• 6 years of experience building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX.
• 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 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 storesExperience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application performance across the entire stack.
• Experience leading large scale modernization efforts to revamp legacy systems from start to finish.
• An appetite for unpacking complexity and simplifying it wherever possible.

StackAdapter’s Enjoy:

• Highly competitive salary
• Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
• Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday’s off!
• Access to a comprehensive mental health care platform
• 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!

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 StackAdaptWe’ve been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. We’ve been awarded:and by Great Place to Work®#LI-REMOTE

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