Software Engineer - Backend

StackAdapt is a self-serve advertising platform that specializes in multi-channel solutions including native display video connected TV audio in-game and digital out-of-home ads. We empower hundreds of digitally-focused companies to deliver outcomes and exceptional campaign performance everyday. StackAdapt was founded with a vision to be more than an advertising platform it’s a hub of innovation imagination and creativity.

StackAdapt is the no. 1 performing programmatic advertising platform helping brands accelerate customer engagement and acquisition. This state-of-the-art platform is where some of the most progressive work in machine learning meets cutting-edge user experience.

Ranking the highest in performance by G2 Crowd for the fourth time we're one of the fastest growing companies in Canada and ranks 6th in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 ranking and 23rd in Fast 500 in North America.

Our real-time advertising bidding system handles over 3000000 requests per second and stores several terabytes of data every day. Our technologies include Go Ruby on Rails Aerospike Redis Elasticsearch Kafka RocksDB Redshift ScyllaDB GraphQL and others. We're not afraid to test and try new technologies.

Watch our talk at Amazon Tech Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRqu-a4gPuU

StackAdapt is a Remote First company we are open to candidates located anywhere in North America for this position.

What you'll be doing:

• Building highly scalable distributed real-time micro-services primarily written in Go

• Working with large data sets and various databases including Aerospike Elasticsearch Redis ScyllaDB Redshift TiDB MariaDB

• Build software that utilize messaging queues such as Kafka SQS and Kinesis

• Write performance efficient and memory optimized code

We'll be reaching out to candidates that have:

• 2+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer.

• Very strong problem solving skills in data structures algorithms and optimization

• Experience working with relational databases and/or key-value stores

• Experience building scalable micro-services and distributed systems

StackAdapters Enjoy:

• Competitive salary

• RRSP 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

• Mentorship opportunities with industry leaders

• An awesome parental leave policy

• A friendly welcoming and supportive culture

• Our social and team events!

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StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are where you are from who you love follow in faith disability (or superpower) status ethnicity or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable let us know your pronouns) you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process please let our Talent team know.

About StackAdapt

We've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace high performing campaigns award-winning customer service and innovation. We've been awarded:

Ad Age Best Places to Work 2024

G2 Top Software and Top Marketing and Advertising Product for 2024

Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2023 for the UK

2024 Best Workplaces for Women and in Canada by Great Place to Work®

#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising

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