Senior Software Engineer- Backend - StackAdapt

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer- Backend
Job Location: United States
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/stackadapt/e3077d81-40a9-491b-ae6b-bea6f2431fb9
Job Description: StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.

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 3,000,000 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, data pipelines and 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:
5+ 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, data pipelines, and/or distributed systems

StackAdapters Enjoy:
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
Mentorship opportunities with industry leaders
An awesome parental leave policy
A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
Our social and team events!