Senior Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join StackAdapt's Creatives Library Team as a senior engineer to design, improve, and debug complex, scalable distributed systems. You will take ownership of projects, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to architectural decision-making. This remote-first position requires 5+ years of experience building high-performance web applications and familiarity with relevant technologies (Ruby on Rails, React, etc.). StackAdapt offers a competitive salary, equity, comprehensive benefits, remote work reimbursements, and robust professional development opportunities. The company fosters a supportive and inclusive culture with various social and team events. This role is open to candidates located anywhere in the United States.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-time work experience building highly performant web applications
• Hands-on experience of leading 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Design, improve, and debug complex, scalable distributed systems
• Take responsibility and ownership of projects from start to finish
• Provide mentorship to interns and junior engineers
• 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
• Contribute to code reviews and technical spec reviews

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is highly preferred - Ruby on Rails, React, Typescript, GraphQL, etc
• Experience working on large scale Ruby on Rails / Go projects
• Experience with creatives, AdTag or programmatic advertising 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!