Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join StackAdapt's Billing team as a highly skilled engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of our billing infrastructure. You will design, improve, and debug complex, scalable systems, optimize performance, and ensure the tech stack remains current. Collaborate with team members on web architecture, APIs, and backend systems, taking ownership of projects from start to finish. Contribute to code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and advise on technical debt. This role requires at least 5 years of experience building high-performance web applications using Ruby on Rails, along with experience in relational databases and key-value stores. StackAdapt offers a remote-first work environment, competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

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!