Role Description As an Engineer at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in the development of our advertising platform, producing production level code that will have a direct impact on the success of our product. You will work with large data sets and have exposure to modern tech stacks such as GoLang, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka and various data stores (Snowflake, TiDB/TiKV, RocksDB and more). StackAdapt’s engineering organization believes in working collaboratively and cross functionally. You will get the opportunity to work in a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed. What You'll Be Doing - Be a significant individual contributor and key asset in delivering critical projects that ultimately bring value to our customers. - Mentor the team and lead by example to uphold software development best-practices in addition to conducting rigorous code and tech spec reviews. - Plays a key role in consistently advising the team on pragmatic technical approaches to problems that encourage engineering excellence and developer happiness. - Plans ahead by strategically architecting scalable web APIs, component libraries and backend systems that serve the team roadmap goals. - Collaborate with stakeholders and other senior engineers across the organization to identify and solve technical challenges that drive impact across teams. - Advise teams on technical debt consolidation in ways that efficiently service our business needs. - Identify bottle-necks and general system wide performance issues and offer actionable solutions to address them. - Conduct technical interviews to attract and identify potential high performing candidates. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience building highly scalable backend systems. - Knowledge of our full-stack technologies including GoLang, AWS, Kubernetes and Kafka. - Prior experience in ad tech is an asset. - Extensive experience writing code with unit tests and end-to-end tests. - Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences. - Experience working with large data sets. - An appetite for using AI as a tool to help in unpacking complexity and simplifying it wherever possible. Benefits - Highly competitive salary. - 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 (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!