[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Creatives
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. StackAdapt is a leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences through its AI-powered marketing platform and programmatic advertising solutions. The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and optimize high-scale programmatic bidding systems, collaborate with machine learning and product teams, and improve distributed-system performance through data-driven experimentation.
Responsibilities
- Lead and collaborate with a team of engineers to design, implement, and optimize our programmatic bidding systems
- Apply analytical, data-driven, and statistical methodologies to problem solving. Continuously optimizing programmatic performance through experimentation and quantitative analysis
- Collaborate with ML engineers to architect and to build complex, innovative solutions that pushes the boundaries of programmatic advertising capabilities, and drive impactful business results
- Rigorously optimize large-scale distributed systems capable of handling billions of requests per second with ms-level latency, ensuring high throughput and infrastructure performance under demanding workloads
- Partner with Product teams to ship innovative features that advance the company's vision, and drive competitive advantage
- Embody the team mission. Be adaptable, and ground development efforts in pragmatic, results-oriented decision making
- Foster operational excellence across engineering and backend teams by cultivating a culture of trust, transparency and technical excellence
- Clearly articulate development ideas and hypotheses, openly embrace technical feedback to support collaborative innovation and continuous improvement
Skills
- The ideal candidates we're looking for must have proven experience in Adtech, exceptional analytical thinking, and superior execution skills
- 3+ years of experience in AdTech or MarTech, ideally working on high-scale or performance-critical systems
- Advanced programming expertise in Go (or strong proficiency in comparable languages such as C++, Java, Scala, or Rust). We value engineers who can deliver high-performance applications regardless of language
- Experience applying machine learning, mathematics, and numerical methods—including deploying large-scale models and real-time inference systems in production. (This is an applied engineering role, not research-focused.)
- 5+ years of experience in software development, particularly building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and architecting scalable microservices or data pipelines in a fast-growing tech environment
- Hands-on experience with multiple database systems, with a solid grasp of their trade-offs and performance considerations
- Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms
- Up-to-date knowledge of modern technologies, tools, and frameworks, with curiosity to continuously learn and evolve
- Bonus: Interest or experience in computational graphics, GPU programming, game development, game theory, or financial trading systems
Benefits
- Retirement/401K/Pension Savings globally
- Competitive paid time off packages, including birthdays off
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- 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, including conferences, courses, and books
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Social and team events
- Candidates may also be eligible for annual bonuses, commissions, and equity awards, depending on the role
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