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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.\nAbout the Team:\nThe Programmatic Bidding team powers our Adtech platform by processing billions of ad auctions every day at millisecond latency. Our Bidding team designs, and builds scalable microservices that span every core aspect of the Adtech pipeline-including pacing, machine learning, bid price optimization, user-profile enrichment, and more. The StackAdapt bidding platform supports hundreds of thousands of advertisers, delivering real-time, intelligent and performant bidding decisions ensuring that every bid is both efficient, and strategically aligned with our customer's business goals. We empower our customers with the best performance driven platform for them to drive the best business decisions, and ROI. \nThe ideal candidates we're looking for must have proven experience in Adtech, exceptional analytical thinking, and superior execution skills. You'll thrive here if you are eager to build and experiment with new technologies and approaches, and can back your ideas with rigorous analysis and data-driven, pragmatic approaches.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nLead and collaborate with a team of engineers to design, implement, and optimize our programmatic bidding systems. \nApply analytical, data-driven, and statistical methodologies to problem solving. Continuously optimizing programmatic performance through experimentation and quantitative analysis. \nCollaborate with ML engineers to architect and to build complex, innovative solutions that pushes the boundaries of programmatic advertising capabilities, and drive impactful business results. \nRigorously 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. \nPartner with Product teams to ship innovative features that advance the company's vision, and drive competitive advantage. \nEmbody the team mission. Be adaptable, and ground development efforts in pragmatic, results-oriented decision making. \nFoster operational excellence across engineering and backend teams by cultivating a culture of trust, transparency and technical excellence \nClearly articulate development ideas and hypotheses, openly embrace technical feedback to support collaborative innovation and continuous improvement.\nWhat You'll Bring to the Table:\n3+ years of experience in AdTech or MarTech, ideally working on high-scale or performance-critical systems.\nAdvanced 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.\nExperience 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.)\n5+ 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.\nHands-on experience with multiple database systems, with a solid grasp of their trade-offs and performance considerations.\nStrong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.\nUp-to-date knowledge of modern technologies, tools, and frameworks, with curiosity to continuously learn and evolve.\nBonus: Interest or experience in computational graphics, GPU programming, game development, game theory, or financial trading systems.\nThe compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected base salary for candidates located in the posting country based on a global rate. It is informed by market data and the approved budget for this position. StackAdapt maintains different compensation ranges for roles across other countries and regions, and final offers will be aligned to the candidate’s current location. We do not ask candidates about current or prior salary history, and we will not use such information, if volunteered, in setting an offer.\nThis range represents base salary only. Depending on the role, candidates may also be eligible for additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package.\nFactors Influencing Final Compensation:\nThe final compensation offer will be determined by a variety of factors, which may include, but are not limited to: the candidate's specific experience, technical skills, knowledge, abilities, and relevant education, licensure, and certifications.\nOther business factors, such as organizational needs and budget alignment, may also be considered in the final offer.\nCanada Base Salary Band\n$170,400—$234,300 CAD\nUSA Base Salary Band\n$160,000—$220,000 USD\nStackAdapter's Enjoy:\nHighly competitive salary\nRetirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally\nCompetitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!\nAccess to a comprehensive mental health care program\nHealth benefits from day one of employment\nWork from home reimbursements\nOptional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto\nRobust training and onboarding program\nCoverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)\nAccess to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning\nAn awesome parental leave program\nA friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture\nOur social and team events!\nPlease note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.\nStackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability, superpower status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. \nStackAdapt is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you require an accommodation, please let us know.\nWe use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.\nAbout StackAdapt\nWe've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. 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