Junior software engineer Jobs in Barrie, ON

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 an Engineer 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 GoLang, 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 Staff Engineer 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.

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About the Planning Team: The Planning team is focused on building a data-driven planning experience that empowers users to forecast campaigns with precision, ensuring their plans align seamlessly with actual campaign outcomes. We power easier campaign planning with benchmarks, and political districts targeting.

What's Exciting? Looking ahead, we are expanding our focus to support vertical strategies, providing users with more tailored guidance for advertising across specific industries. Additionally, we are investing in sales process automation through key integrations, aiming to simplify workflows and make planning even more efficient and seamless from start to finish.

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

What You'll Be Doing

• Plays a key role in consistently advising the team on pragmatic technical approaches to problems that encourage engineering excellence and developer happiness


• Can structure coherent and iterative actionable plans toward delivering effective solutions across the planning surface


• Plans ahead by strategically architecting scalable web APIs, component libraries and backend systems that serve the team roadmap goals


• Collaborate with stakeholders from Data Science, Product & Design and other senior engineers across the organization to identify and solve technical challenges that drive impact across teams


• Advise teams on technical debt consolidation in ways that efficiently service our business needs


• Mentor the team and lead by example to uphold software development best practices in addition to conducting rigorous code and tech spec reviews


• Identify bottle-necks and general system-wide performance issues and offer actionable solutions to address them


• Be a significant individual contributor and a key asset in delivering critical projects that ultimately bring value to our customers

What You'll Bring to the Table

• 6+ years of experience building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX.


• Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is highly preferred - React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails and Go.


• Extensive experience working with a test driven approach to writing code with one or more of our core full-stack (or comparable) technologies


• 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 storesExperience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application performance across the entire stack.


• Experience leading large scale modernization efforts to revamp legacy systems from start to finish.


• An appetite for unpacking complexity and simplifying it wherever possible.

StackAdapter's Enjoy:

• Highly competitive salary


• Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally


• Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!


• Access to a comprehensive mental health care platform


• 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!

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.

About StackAdapt

We've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. We've been awarded:

Ad Age Best Places to Work 2024

G2 Top Software and Top Marketing and Advertising Product for 2024

Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2023 for the UK

2024 Best Workplaces for Women and in Canada by Great Place to Work®

#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising

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