Senior Software Engineer, Creatives

StackAdapt is a technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences through its AI-powered marketing platform. The Senior Software Engineer will lead development and optimization of programmatic bidding systems, collaborating with machine learning and product teams to build scalable, low-latency solutions and drive operational excellence.

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

Requirements:

• The ideal candidates we're looking for must have proven experience in Adtech, exceptional analytical thinking, and superior execution skills
• 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
• Bonus: Interest or experience in computational graphics, GPU programming, game development, game theory, or financial trading systems