Full job description
StackAdapt is seeking a senior full-time remote Engineer based in Canada. The role involves developing scalable distributed systems and production-level code impacting the platform's success. Technologies used include Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and Go, with cloud experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure. Responsibilities include system design, performance optimization, writing test-driven code, and collaborating on architecture and technical planning. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience building performant web applications, working with relational and key-value databases, optimizing web performance, and modernizing legacy systems. Bonus for experience with AI API integrations. Benefits include competitive salary, retirement plans, paid time off, health and mental health benefits, work from home reimbursements, global WeWork memberships, training, personal development support, parental leave, and a supportive culture.
What you'll do
- Design, improve, and debug complex, scalable distributed systems
- Find solutions to optimize bottlenecks and general system wide performance
- Keep the tech stack updated with current standards
- Write extensible scalable and test-driven code, and take responsibility and ownership of projects from start to finish
- Collaborate with team members on designing scalable, well tested, and well documented web architecture, including APIs and backend systems
- Contribute to code reviews, technical spec reviews, technical planning, and architectural decision-making
Requirements
- 5+ years of building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX
- Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences
- Experience working with relational databases and key-value stores
- Experience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application page load performance across the entire stack
- Experience working on large scale Ruby on Rails / Go projects
- Basic knowledge of AWS or other equivalent cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Experience building performant data visualizations and graphs, and leading large scale modernization efforts to revamp legacy systems from start to finish
- Bonus: Experience integrating and orchestrating APIs with AI and agentic loops
Tech stack
Ruby on RailsReactGraphQLGoAWSGCPAzure
Benefits
Highly competitive salaryRetirement/401K/Pension Savings globallyCompetitive Paid time off packages including birthdays offAccess to a comprehensive mental health care programHealth benefits from day one of employmentWork from home reimbursementsOptional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and TorontoRobust training and onboarding programCoverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learningAn awesome parental leave programA friendly, welcoming, and supportive cultureSocial and team events