• Owning the technical roadmap for an automated, AI-driven vulnerability scanning platform across cloud infrastructure, container registries, operating systems, and application-layer software. • Building context-engine models that correlate findings from SAST, DAST, SCA, and cloud posture tooling to determine true runtime exploitability. • Implementing AI-assisted triage workflows that classify vulnerabilities, reduce false positives, and route validated issues to the right engineering teams. • Leading targeted red teaming and collaborative purple teaming exercises to validate exploitable paths and strengthen runtime defenses. • Partnering directly with Software Engineering and DevOps to build automated remediation pipelines, including dependency update pull requests and base-image patching workflows. • Engineering security scanning guardrails into CI/CD pipelines and providing structured telemetry to support continuous compliance and executive risk visibility. • Working with cutting-edge GenAI tools and technology to analyze findings, improve prioritization, and accelerate remediation workflows.

• Lead from the code • Be a core individual contributor in Go, Python, and JavaScript • Set the technical standard through pull request reviews, architecture decisions, and hands-on pair programming • Identify technical debt and risk clearly, communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders • Build out the agile process including sprint planning, refinement, and process development; help us move out of “startup mode” • Directly manage one engineer • Collaborate in a strong remote team environment, building robust and reliable solutions with a strong value proposition • Support a team that cares about what we build, with a bias for action and willingness to take risks

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable web applications. • Develop and enhance features for our POS and Inventory Management System (IMS). • Build secure, reliable, and high-performance backend services and APIs. • Develop responsive and user-friendly frontend applications. • Resolve production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes. • Participate in application deployments and ensure smooth production releases. • Optimize application performance, security, and scalability. • Collaborate with Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, QA Engineers, and DevOps teams throughout the software development lifecycle. • Participate in sprint planning, technical discussions, architecture reviews, and code reviews. • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following engineering best practices.

Role Description The User Profile team at StackAdapt builds and scales the systems that power user identity, audience segmentation, and profile data across our advertising platform. We solve complex distributed systems challenges involving high-throughput data processing, low-latency services, and large-scale data management to enable real-time targeting, bidding, measurement, and marketing workflows. StackAdapt is a Remote First company. We are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada for this position. What You'll Be Doing: - Build highly scalable, distributed real-time microservices primarily written in Go. - Design and develop systems that ingest, process, and manage user profile and audience data at scale. - Build event-driven software utilizing messaging technologies such as Kafka. - Work with distributed databases and storage technologies including ScyllaDB, TiDB, and Redis. - Write performance-efficient, memory-optimized code that delivers reliable, low-latency services. - Collaborate with engineers across Product, Machine Learning, Data, and Infrastructure to build core platform capabilities. 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 distributed data stores. - Experience building scalable microservices and distributed systems. - Experience with Go, Java, Python, C++, or another modern backend programming language. - A passion for building reliable, high-performance systems that operate at scale. 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!