Summary
Join StackAdapt, a self-serve advertising platform, as a Lead Engineer to lead our growing backend engineering team. Our real-time advertising bidding system handles over 3,000,000 requests per second and stores several terabytes of data every day.
Requirements
- Adtech experience or Martech experience is an asset
- 2+ years managing five or more direct reports
- 5+ years experience of software development in distributed systems, architecting scalable microservices and data pipelines. Experience in these areas for a successful high-growth technology company is a plus
- Experience with Go (GoLang) Programming Language is needed in this role
- Proven track record of delivering results and leading growing, high-impact teams
- Experience as a player coach, leading technology as well as people management. Ideally experience managing 3 to 10 direct reports while being a hands on leader
Responsibilities
- Leading a team of engineers focused on building integrations with first-party, and third-party data sources
- Contribute to building of StackAdapt CDP (Customer Data Platform)
- Architect and review scalable low-latency backend systems and data pipelines
- Lead and mentor a growing team of talented engineers within the backend team
- Make a positive impact on the team's productivity and growth
- Promote software development best-practices and conduct rigorous code reviews
- Rigorously identify and solve technical challenges
- Manage software development processes and own the technical roadmap
- Conduct interviews to attract and identify potential high performing candidates
- Balance and prioritize projects to maximize efficiency and ensure company objectives are achieved
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 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!