Engineering Manager I - Marketing Automation

Summary

Join StackAdapt, a leading programmatic advertising platform, as a Technical Engineering Manager to lead our growing full-stack engineering team. You will be responsible for building solutions for marketing automation campaigns, hiring and mentoring engineers, and promoting best practices. This role requires at least 2 years of leadership experience and 5 years of software development experience. StackAdapt offers a remote-first work environment and a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, equity, RRSP matching, generous paid time off, full benefits, and professional development opportunities. We are a fast-growing company with a positive and supportive culture, recognized for our diverse and inclusive workplace and award-winning performance. The Marketing Automation Team is a new team responsible for building new marketing automation capabilities, including campaign editors, email services, audiences and reporting.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of leadership experience, including people management
• Proven track record of delivering results and leading growing, high-impact teams
• In-depth experience with JavaScript or Typescript, CSS, HTML
• Experience working with React.js and Redux
• At least 5 years experience of software development in web technologies and architecting scalable systems in a successful high-growth technology company
• A strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (we have not forgotten our basics!) - data structures, system design, cloud computing, full-stack development etc
• Passion to build a positive and fun engineering culture

Responsibilities

• Lead a team that builds solutions to help customers create and manage marketing automation campaigns
• Hire and mentor a new team of full-stack engineers across different levels of seniority
• Lead a high performance team that executes against their roadmap while following agile best practices
• Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to ensure requirements and priorities align
• Promote software development best-practices and conduct rigorous code reviews
• Plan ahead and architect scalable web APIs, component library and backend systems
• Rigorously identify and solve technical challenges
• Conduct interviews to attract and identify potential high performing candidates
• Balance and prioritize projects to maximize efficiency and ensure company objectives are achieved
• Write code as needed, such as those involving issue resolution and low-effort high-impact items

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working on email marketing automation is an asset
• Experience with a Ruby on Rails backend is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary + equity
• RRSP matching
• 3 weeks vacation + 3 personal care days + 1 Culture & Belief day + birthdays off
• Access to a comprehensive mental health care platform
• Full benefits from day one of employment
• Work from home reimbursements
• Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office
• Robust training and onboarding program
• Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, etc)
• Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
• Mentorship opportunities with industry leaders
• An awesome parental leave policy
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
• Our social and team events!