Remote Senior Engineering Manager, Creatives Platform

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 182,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Pension savings

Mental health program

Birthday off

Parental leave

WFH reimbursements

Training budgets

Conference budgets

Job summary

Stack Adapt seeks an experienced backend engineering leader to guide a team responsible for the end-to-end creatives pipeline within our programmatic advertising platform. You will lead development for bid requests, DCO, creative rendering, and complex rule enforcement with a strict 100ms latency SLA.

The role is remote and open to candidates in the United States and Canada. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and partner with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development on distributed, high‑throughput services.
• 1+ year people management or 2+ years as tech lead.
• Strong CS fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience in adtech/martech and programmatic creative serving.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Golang preferred).

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a backend team, conduct 1:1s and growth plans.
• Break down roadmap initiatives into well‑scoped sprints and surface risks.
• Run agile rituals and balance velocity with commitments.
• Stay hands‑on in code reviews and architecture discussions, enforce standards.
• Coordinate cross‑team dependencies and drive on‑call incident resolution.
• Contribute to hiring and adoption of approved AI tooling to raise velocity.

Skills

DCO

Adtech

Rendering

Golang

Java

Kotlin

C++

Rust

Distributed systems

Scrum/Kanban

Job description

Stack Adapt seeks an experienced backend engineering leader to guide a team responsible for the end-to-end creatives pipeline within our programmatic advertising platform. You will lead development for bid requests, DCO, creative rendering, and complex rule enforcement with a strict 100ms latency SLA.

The role is remote and open to candidates in the United States and Canada. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and partner with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable