Software Engineer, Frontend Infrastructure

StackAdapt is a self-serve advertising platform that specializes in multi-channel solutions including native, display, video, connected TV, audio, in-game ads and digital out-of-home ads. We empower thousands of digitally-focused companies to deliver outcomes and exceptional campaign performance everyday. StackAdapt was founded with a vision to be more than an advertising platform, it’s a hub of innovation, imagination and creativity.

StackAdapt is the #1 performing native advertising platform helping brands accelerate customer engagement and acquisition. This state-of-the-art platform is where some of the most progressive work in machine learning meets cutting-edge user experience.

Ranking the highest in performance by G2 Crowd for the fourth time, we're one of the fastest growing companies in Canada and ranks 6th in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 ranking and 23rd in Fast 500 in North America.

We're always keeping an eye out for talented developers as we build cutting edge software. The digital advertising industry is riddled with interesting challenges as we continue to scale out our platform with a fast growing list of customers. Our technologies include Ruby on Rails, Go, React, Typescript, GraphQL, Aerospike, Redis, Elasticsearch, Amazon Redshift, and others. This position is open to remote candidates in North America. 

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About the Frontend Infrastructure team: The Frontend Infrastructure team empowers product engineers to build fast, maintainable, and accessible user experiences by providing shared tooling, libraries, and best practices. Our work touches everything from local development to production deployment — we own and evolve the systems that make it easy for teams to spin up new features, catch issues early, and ship with confidence. This includes owning our front-end CI/CD pipelines, improving developer workflows, shaping shared standards, and guiding the adoption and evolution of foundational technologies like React and TypeScript across the codebase.

We also work closely with the product design team to build and support our design system and component library. These tools accelerate development, ensure consistency, and uphold a high bar for user experience. Our team helps ensure the system remains reliable, easy to adopt, and aligned with evolving product and design needs.

• Design, improve, and debug the front-end systems and tooling that power our internal development workflows at scale
• Identify and address bottlenecks in the front-end development lifecycle
• Keep our front-end stack modern and efficient by evaluating and adopting evolving tools, frameworks, and standards
• Write extensible, scalable, and testable code for shared libraries, developer tooling, and CI workflows
• Take part in technical planning and architectural decision-making
• Collaborate with team members on designing scalable, well-tested, and well-documented front-end architecture
• Take responsibility and ownership of projects from start to finish
• Contribute to code reviews and technical spec reviews

• 2+ years of full-time work experience building and maintaining complex front-end systems, libraries, or tooling at scale
• Knowledge of our front-end technology stack - React, TypeScript, Redux/Zustand, Material UI, Jest, React Testing Library, GraphQL
• Experience owning technical projects end-to-end, from design to delivery
• Strong understanding of scalable front-end architecture, monorepos, and shared code patterns
• Basic understanding of modern CI/CD workflows for front-end development, such as bundling, static analysis, test automation, and deployment
• Experience analyzing, benchmarking, and optimizing front-end performance, including load times, runtime efficiency, and bundle size
• Bonus: experience working on product teams to design and iterate on user-facing front-end experiences in close collaboration with designers and stakeholders

• Competitive salary + equity
• RRSP matching
• 3 weeks vacation + 3 personal care days + 1 Culture & Belief day + birthdays off
• Access to a comprehensive mental health care platformFull benefits from day one of employment
• Work from home reimbursements
• Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office
• Robust training and onboarding program
• Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, etc)
• Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
• Mentorship opportunities with industry leaders
• An awesome parental leave policy
• 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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