Senior Full Stack Engineer, Planning

Summary

Join StackAdapt's Planning team as a Senior Engineer and play a key role in developing a data-driven planning experience for our advertising platform. You will build scalable web APIs, component libraries, and backend systems, collaborating with Data Science, Product, and Design teams. Responsibilities include advising on technical approaches, planning solutions, collaborating with stakeholders, addressing technical debt, mentoring the team, identifying performance issues, and contributing to critical projects. This role requires 5+ years of experience building high-performance web applications and familiarity with React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, and Go. StackAdapt offers a remote-first work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX
• Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high-impact end-to-end product experiences
• Extensive experience working with a test-driven approach to writing code with one or more of our core full-stack (or comparable) technologies
• Experience working with relational databases and key-value stores
• Experience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application performance across the entire stack
• An appetite for unpacking complexity and simplifying it wherever possible
• Experience working on large scale Ruby on Rails projects
• Experience working with visualization libraries (graphs and maps) to render large data sets on a modern web application
• Knowledge of AWS or other equivalent cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in consistently advising the team on pragmatic technical approaches to problems that encourage engineering excellence and developer happiness
• Structure coherent and iterative actionable plans toward delivering effective solutions across the planning surface
• Plan ahead by strategically architecting scalable web APIs, component libraries and backend systems that serve the team roadmap goals
• Collaborate with stakeholders from Data Science, Product & Design and other senior engineers across the organization to identify and solve technical challenges that drive impact across teams
• Advise teams on technical debt consolidation in ways that efficiently service our business needs
• Mentor the team and lead by example to uphold software development best practices in addition to conducting rigorous code and tech spec reviews
• Identify bottle-necks and general system-wide performance issues and offer actionable solutions to address them
• Be a significant individual contributor and a key asset in delivering critical projects that ultimately bring value to our customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is highly preferred - React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails and Go
• Experience in the AdTech industry is a plus

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• RRSP/401K 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
• An awesome parental leave policy