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.
Engineering at StackAdapt
As a Director, Engineering at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in leading teams responsible for building and evolving the backend systems that power our advertising platform. You will work with large-scale distributed systems, real-time data processing, user identity, integrations, and activation services that are critical to StackAdapt's success. StackAdapt's engineering organization believes in working collaboratively and cross-functionally. You will have the opportunity to work in a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed.
We are looking for a Director, Engineering to lead teams responsible for building and scaling backend services across user data, integrations, and activation domains. The ideal candidate will excel as a leader of leaders, overseeing multiple engineering teams while driving technical strategy, organizational growth, and operational excellence.
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What You'll Do
Leadership & Strategy
- Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large backend engineering organization, aligning engineering investments with business and product goals.
- Lead, mentor, and grow multiple engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of high performance, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Drive technical decision-making and establish standards for architecture, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Help develop future engineering leaders and support organizational growth as the company continues to scale.
Backend & Technical Excellence
- Oversee the design and evolution of backend systems supporting user identity, integrations, activation, and data processing capabilities.
- Ensure systems support high-scale, low-latency, and highly available workloads.
- Partner with Infrastructure, SRE, Product, and Data teams to improve reliability, observability, and operational efficiency.
- Champion best practices in software development, distributed systems design, and engineering excellence.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Product, Revenue, Finance, Data Science, and Engineering teams to align technical priorities with business objectives.
- Build strong partnerships across the organization and represent engineering in strategic initiatives.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Execution & Delivery
- Translate strategic goals into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.
- Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and scalability.
- Use metrics to evaluate reliability, team effectiveness, and delivery outcomes.
What You Bring
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 8+ years in engineering leadership roles.
- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers in a high-scale SaaS, infrastructure, or data-intensive environment.
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, and large-scale backend services.
- Track record of developing engineering leaders and building high-performing teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in AdTech, MarTech, identity platforms, data platforms, or real-time systems is a strong asset but not required.
- 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!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
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Skills Required
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 8+ years in engineering leadership roles
- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers in high-scale SaaS, infrastructure, or data-intensive environments
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, and large-scale backend services
- Track record of developing engineering leaders and building high-performing teams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience in AdTech, MarTech, identity platforms, data platforms, or real-time systems
What We Do
StackAdapt is a self-serve advertising platform that specializes in multi-channel solutions including native, display, video, connected TV and audio ads.
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