Role Description As a Director, Engineering at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in leading teams responsible for building and evolving the backend systems that power our advertising platform. You will work with large-scale distributed systems, real-time data processing, user identity, integrations, and activation services that are critical to StackAdapt's success. We are looking for a Director, Engineering to lead teams responsible for building and scaling backend services across user data, integrations, and activation domains. The ideal candidate will excel as a leader of leaders, overseeing multiple engineering teams while driving technical strategy, organizational growth, and operational excellence. What You'll Do - Leadership & Strategy - Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large backend engineering organization, aligning engineering investments with business and product goals. - Lead, mentor, and grow multiple engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of high performance, ownership, and continuous improvement. - Drive technical decision-making and establish standards for architecture, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. - Help develop future engineering leaders and support organizational growth as the company continues to scale. - Backend & Technical Excellence - Oversee the design and evolution of backend systems supporting user identity, integrations, activation, and data processing capabilities. - Ensure systems support high-scale, low-latency, and highly available workloads. - Partner with Infrastructure, SRE, Product, and Data teams to improve reliability, observability, and operational efficiency. - Champion best practices in software development, distributed systems design, and engineering excellence. - Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with Product, Revenue, Finance, Data Science, and Engineering teams to align technical priorities with business objectives. - Build strong partnerships across the organization and represent engineering in strategic initiatives. - Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Execution & Delivery - Translate strategic goals into actionable plans and measurable outcomes. - Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and scalability. - Use metrics to evaluate reliability, team effectiveness, and delivery outcomes. Qualifications - 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 8+ years in engineering leadership roles. - Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers in a high-scale SaaS, infrastructure, or data-intensive environment. - Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, and large-scale backend services. - Track record of developing engineering leaders and building high-performing teams. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. - Experience in AdTech, MarTech, identity platforms, data platforms, or real-time systems is a strong asset but not required. 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!