StackAdapt

Director, Engineering

Canada; United States · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 28 days ago

Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentSite Reliability EngineeringData ScienceStakeholder ManagementPerformance MarketingExcelOnboardingCustomer SupportSignal ProcessingLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision.
The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
You will work with large-scale distributed systems, real-time data processing, user identity, integrations, and activation services that are critical to StackAdapt's success.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow multiple engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of high performance, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Drive technical decision-making and establish standards for architecture, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
Help develop future engineering leaders and support organizational growth as the company continues to scale.
Oversee the design and evolution of backend systems supporting user identity, integrations, activation, and data processing capabilities.
Ensure systems support high-scale, low-latency, and highly available workloads.
Partner with Infrastructure, SRE, Product, and Data teams to improve reliability, observability, and operational efficiency.
Champion best practices in software development, distributed systems design, and engineering excellence.
Build strong partnerships across the organization and represent engineering in strategic initiatives.
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.
As a Director, Engineering at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in leading teams responsible for building and evolving the backend systems that power our advertising platform.

Requirements

15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 8+ years in engineering leadership roles.
Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers in a high-scale SaaS, infrastructure, or data-intensive environment.
Experience in AdTech, MarTech, identity platforms, data platforms, or real-time systems is a strong asset but not required.
Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, and large-scale backend services.
Track record of developing engineering leaders and building high-performing teams.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
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

Compensation

Highly competitive salary

Benefits

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
Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large backend engineering organization, aligning engineering investments with business and product goals.
Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and scalability.
You will have the opportunity to work in a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed.

Company info

We are looking for a Director, Engineering to lead teams responsible for building and scaling backend services across user data, integrations, and activation domains.

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