StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. 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.
As an Engineering Manager I at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in the development of our advertising platform, producing production level code that will have a direct impact on the success of our product. You will work with large data sets and have exposure to modern tech stacks around Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL and more. StackAdapt’s engineering organization believes in working collaboratively and cross functionally. You will get the opportunity to work in a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed.
We're seeking a technical Engineering Manager I to help lead our growing full-stack engineering team. The digital advertising industry is riddled with interesting challenges as we continue to scale out our platform with a fast growing list of customers.
This EM1 position offers a distinctive hands-on management opportunity, allowing you to oversee a small team of highly skilled engineers while concurrently serving as a technical lead on core projects.
About the Customer Data Platform Team: We are a team of high-caliber fullstack engineers whose mission is to empower marketers to build and target the right audiences for their digital campaigns, follow their conversion journey, and provide insights about campaign effectiveness. We are leading the effort in building a platform that will help brands organize and manage their audiences, engage them meaningfully, and bridge the gap between programmatic advertising and marketing tech. The team and their projects will have high impact and high visibility across the company!
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About The Team:The Data Hub Team is responsible for building and improving campaign editors that are the most important parts of the platform to help clients create new campaigns and tie all aspects of their bidding strategy together. The team consistently expands campaign channels, builds new campaign features, and provides customers with more strategies in their campaigns. We also manage StackAdapt public GraphQL API which allows for programmatic campaign execution. What You'll Be Doing:- Lead and mentor a team of 5+ talented engineers within full-stack platform engineering
- Truly care about the team and product. Make a positive impact on the team's productivity and growth
- Act as a hands-on manager and participate in project design and implementation within this team and other teams. Participate in project system design and implementation.
- Plan roadmap, engineer resources and hiring/
- Promote software development best practices and conduct rigorous code reviews
- Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to ensure requirements and priorities align
- Conduct interviews to attract and identify potential high-performing candidates
- Balance and prioritize projects to maximize efficiency and ensure company objectives are achieved
- Proven track record of delivering results and leading growing high-impact teams
- At least 5 years experience in full-stack software development in web technologies and architecting scalable systems in a successful high-growth technology company
- At least 1 years of leadership experience, including essential people management experiences listed above
- You have in-depth experience with Typescript, React and GraphQL
- You have experience working with modern frontend libraries and frameworks (eg. Redux, Zustand, Jest)
- You have experience in modern full-stack frameworks (e.g. Django, Ruby on Rails)
- Experience scaling a Ruby on Rails backend architecture is a plus
- Experience in AWS is a plus
- A strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (we have not forgotten our basics!) - data structures, system design, cloud computing, full-stack development etc.
- Passion to build a positive and fun engineering culture1`
- 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!
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