Software Engineer, Backend

StackAdapt•Vancouver, BC

7d•Remote

About The Position

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 Canada for this position.

Requirements

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 microservices and distributed systems

Nice To Haves

Hands-on AdTech experience, especially with bidders, open exchanges, and bid streams
Experience in high-scale, low-latency environments
Experience with greenfield development
Experience working on high-throughput event-driven systems
Experience with complex integrations
Experience with data-heavy systems
Experience building scalable solutions

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

Highly competitive salary
Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
Health benefits from day one of employment
Work from home reimbursements
Optional global WeWork membership
Robust training and onboarding program
Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
An awesome parental leave program
A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
Our social and team events!