Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join StackAdapt's Billing team as a highly skilled engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of our advertising platform's billing infrastructure. You will design, improve, and debug complex, scalable systems, optimize performance, and write high-quality code. Collaboration with team members and participation in technical planning are essential. The role involves mentoring junior engineers and contributing to code and technical spec reviews. StackAdapt offers a remote-first work environment and a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, RRSP/401K matching, generous paid time off, and various other perks.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of full-time work experience building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX
• You must have recent work experience with Ruby on Rails
• Experience working with relational databases and key-value stores
• Experience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application page load performance across the entire stack

Responsibilities

• Design, improve, and debug complex, scalable 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
• Provide mentorship to interns and junior engineers
• 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 key asset in delivering critical projects that ultimately bring value to our customers
• Conduct technical interviews to attract and identify potential high performing candidates

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is preferred - React, Typescript, GraphQL and Go
• Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences

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
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
• Our social and team events!