Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join StackAdapt's Creatives Library Team as a highly skilled engineer to design, improve, and debug complex, scalable distributed systems. You will play a key role in optimizing performance, writing scalable and testable code, and collaborating on architectural decisions. This remote-first position requires 8+ years of experience building high-performance web applications and familiarity with technologies like React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, and Go. You will lead large-scale modernization efforts and contribute to code and technical spec reviews. StackAdapt offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX
• 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

Responsibilities

• Design, improve, and debug complex, scalable distributed systems
• Find solutions to optimize bottlenecks and general system-wide performance
• 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
• Be a significant individual contributor and a 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 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
• An appetite for unpacking complexity and simplifying it wherever possible

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