[Remote] Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Programmatic Bidding

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. They are seeking a Staff/Senior Software Engineer for their Programmatic Bidding team to design and optimize systems that process billions of ad auctions daily.

Responsibilities

• Lead and collaborate with a team of engineers to design, implement, and optimize our programmatic bidding systems
• Apply analytical, data-driven, and statistical methodologies to problem solving. Continuously optimizing programmatic performance through experimentation and quantitative analysis
• Collaborate with ML engineers to architect and to build complex, innovative solutions that pushes the boundaries of programmatic advertising capabilities, and drive impactful business results
• Rigorously optimize large-scale distributed systems capable of handling billions of requests per second with ms-level latency, ensuring high throughput and infrastructure performance under demanding workloads
• Partner with Product teams to ship innovative features that advance the company's vision, and drive competitive advantage
• Embody the team mission. Be adaptable, and ground development efforts in pragmatic, results-oriented decision making
• Foster operational excellence across engineering and backend teams by cultivating a culture of trust, transparency and technical excellence
• Clearly articulate development ideas and hypotheses, openly embrace technical feedback to support collaborative innovation and continuous improvement

Skills

• 3+ years of experience in AdTech or MarTech, ideally working on high-scale or performance-critical systems
• Advanced programming expertise in Go (or strong proficiency in comparable languages such as C++, Java, Scala, or Rust). We value engineers who can deliver high-performance applications regardless of language
• Experience applying machine learning, mathematics, and numerical methods—including deploying large-scale models and real-time inference systems in production. (This is an applied engineering role, not research-focused.)
• 5+ years of experience in software development, particularly building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and architecting scalable microservices or data pipelines in a fast-growing tech environment
• Hands-on experience with multiple database systems, with a solid grasp of their trade-offs and performance considerations
• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms
• Up-to-date knowledge of modern technologies, tools, and frameworks, with curiosity to continuously learn and evolve
• Interest or experience in computational graphics, GPU programming, game development, game theory, or financial trading systems

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 for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
• 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!

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