Role Description StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada 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 Qualifications - 2+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer - Very 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 Requirements - Teams Hiring at StackAdapt - Bidding Team (AdTech at Scale) - Build and optimize the real-time microservices that automatically purchase ad inventory across web, mobile, CTV, and more. - Work on low-level performance optimizations, high-throughput systems, campaign pacing algorithms, and ML model integrations that directly impact how millions of dollars are spent efficiently every day. - Ideal for engineers with hands-on AdTech experience, especially with bidders, open exchanges, and bid streams, who thrive in high-scale, low-latency environments. - Marketing Execution (MarTech Meets AdTech) - Join a backend team doing something different: building the foundation for marketing tech, i.e. Email, Direct Mail and SMS marketing as part of StackAdapt’s broader MarTech vision. - Help bridge MarTech and AdTech to create a smarter, more connected marketing platform that allows brands to conduct their advertising and marketing strategies in one place. - Perfect for engineers excited by greenfield development, working on high-throughput event-driven systems, and shaping how marketing technology evolves at StackAdapt. - Integrations - Solutions (Platform Expansion & Partnerships) - Develop specialized integrations that unify the fragmented AdTech ecosystem into a single, powerful StackAdapt platform - eliminating the need for advertisers to juggle multiple tools. - Collaborate closely with internal product teams and external data partners to deepen product capabilities, unlock new use cases, and drive platform growth. - A great fit for engineers who enjoy complex integrations, data-heavy systems, and building scalable solutions that expand market reach. 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 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 (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!