Engineering at StackAdapt:
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 around GoLang, Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL 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.
About the Team:
The Growth Team is responsible for building and improving campaign editors, which are the most important parts of the platform to help clients create new campaigns and tie all aspects of their bidding strategy together. The team consistently expands campaign channels and provides customers with more strategies in their campaigns. We also manage StackAdapt's public GraphQL API which allows for programmatic campaign execution.
StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada for this position.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Design, improve, and debug complex, scalable distributed systems
- Find solutions to optimize bottle-necks and general system wide performance
- Always on the lookout to keep the tech stack updated with current standards
- Write extensible, scalable and test-driven code
- Take part in technical planning and architectural decision-making
- Collaborate with team members on designing scalable, well tested, and well documented web architecture, including APIs and backend systems
- Be able to take responsibility and ownership of projects from start to finish
- Contribute to code reviews and technical spec reviews
What You'll Bring to the Table
- 2+ years of full-time work experience building highly performant web applications
- Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is highly preferred - React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails etc.
- Experience with a technical project end-to-end, from design to delivery
- Strong understanding of scalable system design for web-based APIs and backend processing systems
- Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences
- Experience working with relational databases and key-value stores
- Experience working on large scale Ruby on Rails / Go projects
- Basic knowledge of AWS or other equivalent cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Experience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application page load performance across the entire stack
- Experience with creatives, AdTag or programmatic advertising is a plus
