Remote Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Summary

Join StackAdapt, a self-serve advertising platform, as a Staff Engineer to lead the growing full-stack engineering team. You will be directly involved in developing the advertising platform, working with large data sets, and collaborating cross-functionally.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX
• 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 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
• Experience leading large scale modernization efforts to revamp legacy systems from start to finish
• An appetite for unpacking complexity and simplifying it wherever possible

Responsibilities

• Plays a critical role in advising on full-stack technical decisions that will impact the entire Audiences & CDP domain
• Unpacks ambiguity and complexity with ease and is able to advise and delegate work as needed to deliver on greenfield initiatives
• Communicates on complex technical endeavours both verbally and in technical design documents with precision and clarity
• Plays a key role in consistently advising the team on pragmatic technical approaches to problems that encourage engineering excellence and developer happiness
• Can structure coherent and iterative actionable plans towards delivering effective solutions across Audiences & CDP
• Plans ahead by strategically architecting scalable web APIs, component libraries and backend systems that serve the team roadmap goals
• Collaborate with stakeholders 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 key asset in delivering critical projects that ultimately bring value to our customers
• Conduct technical interviews to attract and identify potential high performing candidates

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