Senior​/Backend Software Engineer, Mobile App User Acquisition

Overview

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Stack Adapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. The AI-powered Stack Adapt Marketing Platform processes billions of data points daily to drive measurable results across the customer journey. Stack Adapt’s real-time bidding systems handle high request volumes and deliver scalable, data-driven advertising for mobile app campaigns. Stack Adapt is a remote-first company open to candidates located anywhere in Canada or the United States.

• Design & Build:
  Develop high-performance, data-intensive microservices (primarily in Go) that drive real-time bidding and user acquisition outcomes for mobile apps.
• Scale Systems:
  Architect and maintain event-driven data pipelines that process billions of mobile signals daily, ensuring low-latency and highly available services.
• Optimize User Acquisition:
  Collaborate with data scientists and product teams to integrate ML models and sophisticated targeting logic into the bidding process to achieve optimal campaign performance.
• Leverage Modern Technologies:
  Work with our evolving stack, including Go, Ruby on Rails, Aerospike, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redshift, Scylla
  
  DB, Graph
  
  QL, and other emerging technologies.
• Ensure Efficiency:
  Write performance-efficient, memory-optimized code and continually refine services for reliability, scalability, and speed.
• Data-Driven Insights:
  Partner with analytics and data engineering to build and optimize reporting systems that surface actionable insights for our clients’ user acquisition campaigns.

• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer, with exposure to large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines in a mobile user acquisition environment.
• Strong problem-solving:
  Demonstrated expertise in algorithms, data structures, and complex system design—comfortable tackling low-latency, high-throughput challenges.
• Database mastery:
  
  Experience with relational and No
  
  SQL databases (e.g., Aerospike, Redis, Scylla
  
  DB) for storing and retrieving large volumes of data.
• Microservices & messaging:
  Hands-on experience building microservices and using message queues (Kafka, SQS, Kinesis) to handle massive event streams in real time.
• Performance focus:
  Proven track record of writing highly optimized, scalable code in Go or similar languages.
• Team player:
  Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a cross-functional, globally distributed environment.

• Highly competitive salary
• Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
• Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday off
• Access to a comprehensive mental health care platform
• 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
• Robust training and onboarding program
• Support for personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books, etc)
• Access to Stack Adapt programmatic courses and certifications
• Parental leave program
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
• Social and team events

Stack Adapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals. If you have specific requests or requirements to support you through the interview process, please let our Talent team know.

About Stack Adapt:
We’ve been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. Recent recognitions include Ad Age Best Places to Work 2024, G2 Top Software and Top Marketing and Advertising Product for 2024, Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2023 (UK), and 2024 Best Workplaces for Women and in Canada by Great Place to Work.