Senior Software Engineer, User Data

StackAdapt; Canada (KY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build scalable micro-services primarily using Go. Candidates should have a strong background in backend engineering and experience with various databases. The role is remote and open to candidates within the United States and Canada. This company offers competitive salary packages and excellent benefits including health coverage from day one. Join a diverse and inclusive team making significant impacts in marketing technology.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

401K/ Pension Savings globally

Paid time off packages

Health benefits from day one

Work from home reimbursements

Training and onboarding program

Parental leave program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one backend programming language.
• Experience working with relational databases or key-value stores.

Responsibilities

• Build highly scalable, distributed real-time micro-services.
• Work with large data sets across various databases.
• Write performance efficient and memory optimized code.

Skills

Backend Software Engineering

Problem solving

Data structures and algorithms

Micro-services architecture

Database management

Tools

Golang

Kafka

AWS

Elasticsearch

Redis

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.

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.

About the Team:

The User Data team manages all aspects of user profiles, from bidding stream data ingestion to data processing, augmentation, and storage, and provides different representations of these datasets to various downstream services and stakeholders, including Bidding, Data Science, and other teams. We also own the non-programmatic workflow engine and user segment builder.

Our systems are built in Golang and handle millions of requests per second with an SLA of 100ms. We leverage AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, ScyllaDB, and other modern tools and databases. It’s important to note that we are a software services team, not a data engineering team.

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

What you'll be doing:

• Building highly scalable, distributed real-time micro-services primarily written in Go
• Working with large data sets and various databases including Aerospike, Elasticsearch, Redis, ScyllaDB, Redshift, TiDB, MariaDB
• Build software that utilize messaging queues such as Kafka, SQS, and Kinesis
• Write performance efficient and memory optimized code

What you'll bring to the table:

• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer
• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one widely used backend programming language (Go preferred but not required)
• Strong problem solving skills in data structures, algorithms, and optimization
• Experience working with relational databases and/or key-value stores
• Experience building scalable micro-services and distributed systems
• Bonus: Experience in Adtech/Martech, understanding of user/profile management, familiarity with real-time data streaming and large scale data storage, and basic knowledge of Machine Learning concepts

StackAdapt's Benefits:

• 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.

StackAdapt is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates. We are committed to building an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds and viewpoints of our employees, our customers and our communities.