StackAdapt · 1 week ago
Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer, Mobile App User Acquisition
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expStackAdapt is a leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. They are seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer for their Mobile App User Acquisition team to design and build backend services that drive real-time advertising for mobile app campaigns.
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Responsibilities
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, ScyllaDB, GraphQL, 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
Qualification
Required
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 working with both relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Aerospike, Redis, ScyllaDB) for storing and retrieving large volumes of data
Microservices & Messaging: Hands-on experience with 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
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!
Company
StackAdapt
StackAdapt is a multi-channel programmatic advertising platform that helps maximize digital marketing efforts through data-driven solutions.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$536.61MKey Investors
Teachers’ Venture GrowthSummit Partners
2025-02-04Private Equity· $235M
2022-01-01Private Equity· $300M
2016-01-28Series A· $0.71M
Leadership Team
Vitaly Pecherskiy
CEO and Co-founder
Yang Han
Co-Founder and CTO
Recent News
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