Senior Software Engineer, Stats & Analytics - Platform Services

StackAdapt; Canada (KY); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Canada and the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Stats & Analytics team, responsible for building scalable, distributed systems and real-time APIs. Candidates should have a strong backend engineering background, with experience in micro-services and databases. This fully remote position offers competitive benefits including health coverage from day one and professional development support.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

401K and pension savings globally

Comprehensive mental health care platform

Work from home reimbursements

Robust training and onboarding program

Parental leave program

Social and team events

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a backend software engineer.
• Experience building scalable micro-services and distributed systems.
• Strong problem solving skills in data structures and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Leading projects by partnering with product and engineering teams.
• Building highly scalable, distributed real-time micro-services.
• Developing latency-sensitive APIs for dashboards and reporting.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Micro-services

Distributed systems

Problem solving skills

Relational databases

Tools

Golang

TiDB

Redshift

Elasticsearch

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Stats & Analytics - Platform Services

Canada; United States

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. StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in the United States or Canada for this position.

About the Stats & Analytics Team

The Stats and Analytics team at StackAdapt solves complex distributed system challenges, focusing on scalability, performance, reliability, and data consistency. We leverage a modern tech stack that includes Golang for high-performance services, TiDB for scalable SQL databases, Redshift and Snowflake for data warehousing, Kafka for real-time streaming, Elasticsearch for analytics, and HDFS for distributed storage.

The Stats & Analytics team is structured into three subteams:

Data Internalization: Ingests diverse data such as engagement events (impressions, clicks) and conversion data (purchases, website visits)

Platform Services: Powers downstream services such as reporting, billing, bidding, and analytics

Data Externalization: Makes data accessible for offline use, supporting data warehousing, client reporting, and custom dashboards

About the Platform Services Team

The Platform Services sub team works closely with product managers and the web platform teams to deliver reporting and analytics features that directly serve our clients. Platform Services is responsible for:

• Designing and maintaining reporting databases that power near-real-time dashboards and reports
• Building the data pipelines that process data for fast retrieval
• Developing APIs that deliver reporting data with low latency and high reliability

In addition to product-driven projects, the team has several initiatives to rearchitect our data pipelines, improve data freshness, and optimize query performance. Our engineers frequently collaborate across teams to design solutions that balance business needs with technical scalability.

If you enjoy building customer-facing data systems and partnering with the product team to shape solutions, this role is for you.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading projects by partnering with product and engineering teams across requirements, design, implementation, and delivery
• Building highly scalable, distributed real-time micro-services primarily written in Go
• Working with large data sets in TiDB, Redshift, Vitess, and Elasticsearch with future opportunities working with ClickHouse, Pinot, and Iceberg
• Developing latency-sensitive APIs for dashboards and reporting
• Optimizing pipelines, queries, and data models for performance and efficiency

We'll be reaching out to candidates that have:

• 5+ years of experience as a backend software engineer
• Interest in working with product teams to refine requirements and deliver features
• Experience building scalable micro-services and distributed systems
• Strong problem solving skills in data structures, algorithms, and optimization
• Hands-on experience working with relational databases and/or key-value stores
• Bonus: Experience interpreting and working with data

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.

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