Software Engineer, Planning

Summary

Join StackAdapt's Planning team as a key contributor to building a data-driven planning experience. You will play a crucial role in advising the team on technical approaches, structuring actionable plans, and architecting scalable web APIs and backend systems. Collaborate with stakeholders across Data Science, Product, and Design to solve technical challenges and improve team impact. Contribute significantly to delivering critical projects that bring value to customers. StackAdapt is a Remote First company, open to North American candidates. The role requires 2+ years of experience building high-performance web applications and collaboration with Product & Design teams.

Requirements

• 2+ 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
• 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

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