StackAdapt · 2 days ago
Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Programmatic Bidding
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expStackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. The Staff/Senior Software Engineer in Programmatic Bidding will lead a team to design and optimize programmatic bidding systems, applying analytical methodologies to enhance performance and drive impactful business results.
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Responsibilities
Lead and collaborate with a team of engineers to design, implement, and optimize our programmatic bidding systems
Apply analytical, data-driven, and statistical methodologies to problem solving. Continuously optimizing programmatic performance through experimentation and quantitative analysis
Collaborate with ML engineers to architect and to build complex, innovative solutions that pushes the boundaries of programmatic advertising capabilities, and drive impactful business results
Rigorously 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
Partner with Product teams to ship innovative features that advance the company's vision, and drive competitive advantage
Embody the team mission. Be adaptable, and ground development efforts in pragmatic, results-oriented decision making
Foster operational excellence across engineering and backend teams by cultivating a culture of trust, transparency and technical excellence
Clearly articulate development ideas and hypotheses, openly embrace technical feedback to support collaborative innovation and continuous improvement
Qualification
Required
3+ years of experience in AdTech or MarTech, ideally working on high-scale or performance-critical systems
Advanced 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
Experience 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.)
5+ 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
Hands-on experience with multiple database systems, with a solid grasp of their trade-offs and performance considerations
Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms
Up-to-date knowledge of modern technologies, tools, and frameworks, with curiosity to continuously learn and evolve
Preferred
Interest or experience in computational graphics, GPU programming, game development, game theory, or financial trading systems
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
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (4)
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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
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