Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer, Mobile App UserAcquisition

The Team Mobile App User Acquisition

Our Mobile App User Acquisition team focuses on designing and building the backend services and pipelines that power high-performance, real-time advertising for mobile app campaigns. We develop and optimize the systems that ensure mobile marketers can effectively reach and engage new users at scale, leveraging advanced algorithms, robust data infrastructure, and real-time decisioning.

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StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada or the United States for this position.

What you’ll be doing:

Design & Build : Develop high-performance, data-intensive microservices (primarily in Go) that drive real-time bidding and user acquisition outcomes for mobile apps.

Scale Systems : Architect and maintain event-driven data pipelines that process billions of mobile signals daily, ensuring low-latency and highly available services.

Optimize User Acquisition : Collaborate with data scientists and product teams to integrate ML models and sophisticated targeting logic into the bidding process to achieve optimal campaign performance.

Leverage Modern Technologies : Work with our evolving stack, including Go, Ruby on Rails, Aerospike, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redshift, ScyllaDB, GraphQL, and other emerging technologies.

Ensure Efficiency : Write performance-efficient, memory-optimized code and continually refine services for reliability, scalability, and speed.

Data-Driven Insights : Partner with analytics and data engineering to build and optimize reporting systems that surface actionable insights for our clients’ user acquisition campaigns.

What you’ll bring to the table:

5+ years of experience

as a Backend Software Engineer, with exposure to large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines in a mobile user acquisition environment.

Strong Problem-Solving : Demonstrated expertise in algorithms, data structures, and complex system design—comfortable tackling low-latency, high-throughput challenges.

Database Mastery : Experience working with both relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Aerospike, Redis, ScyllaDB) for storing and retrieving large volumes of data.

Microservices & Messaging : Hands-on experience with building microservices and using message queues (Kafka, SQS, Kinesis) to handle massive event streams in real time.

Performance Focus : Proven track record of writing highly optimized, scalable code in Go or similar languages.

Team Player : Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a cross-functional, globally distributed environment.

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!

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.

StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.

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