Engineering at StackAdapt: 
As an Engineer at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in the development of our new MarTech platform, producing production-level code that will directly impact on the success of our product. You will work with large data sets and have exposure to modern tech stacks, including technologies like Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and more. StackAdapt’s engineering organization believes in working collaboratively and cross-functionally, and offers a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed.

About the Team:
Our team is building the future of MarTech. The Orchestration Flows team is developing a revolutionary platform that enables marketers to launch performant campaigns and sync them automatically with programmatic channels. We’re evolving from an Adtech leader into a full-service marketing powerhouse, and we need your help to scale.

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

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design, improve, and debug complex distributed systems, managing cross-team backend dependencies to ensure unblocked delivery of new product features
• Lead code reviews, technical specifications, and architectural planning to drive rapid decision-making and maintain high shipping standards
• Develop and maintain our highly-interactive React frontend for the Orchestration Flows product, managing complex state and branching logic to ensure a seamless customer experience
• Implement scalable systems and APIs using Ruby on Rails and GraphQL, ensuring a high-performance foundation for new product features
• Write extensible, test-driven code and take full responsibility for projects from initial design through to production deployment
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks that directly impact user adoption and product performance
• Mentor teammates and cultivate a fun and collaborative team atmosphere

What You'll Bring to the Table

• 5+ years of building highly-performant web applications
• Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences
• In-depth knowledge of AWS or other equivalent cloud platforms like GCP or Azure
• Ability to maximize the use of our AI-assisted tools to accelerate development cycles and identify opportunities to integrate AI features that drive product innovation and customer adoption
• Proven experience designing and maintaining relational databases and key-value stores at scale
• Ability to navigate backend dependencies and negotiate technical contracts to ensure unblocked delivery of product features
• Experience implementing testing and quality strategies that maintain system stability without compromising shipping speed

What You'll Be Doing:

• Unique to this team are opportunities to work directly with users and drive projects to completion end-to-end
• Design, improve, and debug complex, scalable distributed systems
• Write extensible, scalable and test-driven code
• Take part in sprint planning and architectural decision-making
• Collaborate with team members on designing scalable, well tested, and well documented web architecture, including APIs and backend systems. As an engineer, you are expected to take responsibility and ownership of projects from start to finish
• Contribute to code reviews and technical spec reviews

What You'll Bring to the Table

• 2+ years of full-time work experience building highly performant web applications
• Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is highly preferred - React, Typescript, Redux, Ruby on Rails etc.
• Experience with implementing a client-facing project end-to-end, from design to delivery
• Strong understanding of scalable system design for web-based APIs (GraphQL, gPRC or REST)  and backend processing systems
• Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences
• Experience working on large scale Ruby on Rails /  GraphQL projects a plus
• Basic knowledge of AWS or other equivalent cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application page load performance across the entire stack
• Experience with the AdTech industry is a plus

What You'll Bring to the Table

• 5+ years of experience as a motion/visual designer (or equivalent portfolio-based experience).
• A portfolio showing strong digital advertising craft across display / social / web (motion work required; interactive is a plus).
• Intermediate+ motion/animation skills and strong visual design fundamentals (composition, typography, pacing, brand sensibility).
• Practical experience with HTML5 + CSS, including debugging/troubleshooting interactive creatives.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, especially After Effects; familiarity with Google Web Designer / Animate is a plus.
• Strong collaboration skills: you can translate ambiguous needs into clear template requirements and work effectively with engineers.

Nice to have: 

• Experience optimizing creative assets for mobile/video environments; familiarity with DOOH and/or native formats.
• Experience with DCO / feed-driven creative or template frameworks.
• Basic video/audio editing experience.
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools (or a strong interest in doing so) to improve creative production workflows.
• Familiarity with Figma, component libraries, or design systems for reusable creative building blocks.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design, improve, and debug complex, scalable distributed systems
• Find solutions to optimize bottle-necks and general system wide performance
• Always on the lookout to keep the tech stack updated with current standards
• 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

What You'll Bring to the Table

• 8+ 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
• 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 page load performance across the entire stack
• Experience working on large scale Ruby on Rails / Go projects
• Basic knowledge of AWS or other equivalent cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience with Server Side Rendering technologies such as NextJS
• Experience building performant data visualizations and graphs
• Experience leading large scale modernization efforts to revamp legacy systems from start to finish

Engineering at StackAdapt: 

As an Engineer at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in the development of our advertising platform, producing production-level code that will have a direct impact on the success of our product. You will work with large data sets and have exposure to modern tech stacks around GoLang, Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL and more. StackAdapt’s engineering organization believes in working collaboratively and cross-functionally. You will get the opportunity to work in a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed.

About the Team: 

The Total Media team is focused on building a brand-new ad operating system for the platform. They are developing the foundational infrastructure and gateways required to interact and orchestrate with major digital ecosystems. As a core entry point for multi-channel strategy, the team focuses on complex integrations that allow for seamless, unified execution across the broader advertising landscape.

StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada and the United States for this position.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build and operate integrations that support Ads campaign management lifecycle
• Implement a lifecycle state machine and orchestration for activation and updates across entity hierarchies, across multiple advertising and marketing partners
• Build reliability patterns for production integrations: rate-limit handling, pagination, batching, circuit breakers, and drift detection/reconciliation for eventual consistency
• 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

What You'll Bring to the Table:

• 2+ years of full-time work experience building highly performant web applications
• Strong backend experience building API-driven products, including GraphQL and REST
• Proven experience integrating third-party / partner APIs in production, including:
  
  • Handling rate limits, pagination, retries/backoff, and partial failures
  • Designing idempotent create/update/activate operations
  • Translating partner validation errors into clear, actionable user-facing messages
  • Develop clear internal documentation to help engineers run the application locally and troubleshoot/debug issues efficiently
• Experience implementing OAuth 2.0 (authorization code flow + refresh tokens) and secure credential handling (scopes/permissions, token rotation, secrets management)
• Strong fundamentals in data modelling and system design for integrations: internal ↔ external ID mapping, status/state mapping, drift detection, and repair/replay tooling
• Comfort using AI-assisted developer tooling and/or building agentic workflows to accelerate delivery and improve operational quality