StackAdapt

StackAdapt

Engineering Manager I, Creatives

Canada; Toronto; United States; Vancouver

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
JavaGoRustC++KotlinDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentData StructuresCode ReviewAWSKubernetesKafkaData EngineeringData ScienceProject ManagementAgilePerformance MarketingOnboardingCustomer SupportSignal ProcessingLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • We interact with several downstream services and stakeholders, including Bidding, Data Science, and Product.
  • Our systems are built in Golang and handle millions of requests per second with an SLA of 100ms.
  • We leverage AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Aerospike, and other modern tools and databases.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of backend engineers who own the creative pipeline, supporting their day-to-day execution and removing blockers so the team ships reliably.
  • Conduct regular 1:1s, give timely tactical feedback, build psychological safety, and support engineers in executing on their growth plans; surface performance concerns to leadership early.
  • Stay close to the technology: participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, uphold coding and testing standards, and help the team make sound, scalable component-level design decisions.
  • Participate in incident resolution and support the team's on-call rotation; ensure production issues are followed through to root cause.
  • 1+ years of people management experience, or 2+ years as a tech lead / mentor for a backend team, with a desire to grow into a career manager.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Experience with Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), and ad markup and rendering.
  • Hands-on experience with our stack.

Nice to have

  • Frontend development experience, understanding of web technologies and how creatives are served and rendered in the browser, and frontend device.
  • Experience operating systems under global compliance and privacy frameworks.
  • StackAdapter's Enjoy:
  • Work from home reimbursements
  • Robust training and onboarding program
  • A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
  • Our social and team events!
  • StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe.

Compensation

  • Highly competitive salary

Benefits

  • 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
  • Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
  • 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
  • Run the team's agile rituals (stand-ups, planning, retros) and continuously monitor sprint health - velocity, workload balance - to prevent burnout and keep commitments realistic.

Company info

  • The Creative team manages all aspects of the creatives pipeline at StackAdapt, from serving creatives on bid requests to dynamic creative selection, creative approval and audit workflows, and applying complex business rules.
  • We are a software services team, not a data engineering team.
  • 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 or the United States for this position.
  • What You'll Be Doing:
  • Execute on roadmap milestones defined with Product and senior engineering leadership; break initiatives down into well-scoped sprints and track delivery, flagging risks and delays to stakeholders early.
  • Coordinate with peer teams (Bidding, Data Science, Product) on immediate cross-team dependencies affecting creative serving and selection.
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