[Remote] Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer, Mobile App User Acquisition

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. They are seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer to design and build backend services and pipelines for mobile app user acquisition campaigns, focusing on high-performance, real-time advertising.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance, data-intensive microservices (primarily in Go) that drive real-time bidding and user acquisition outcomes for mobile apps
• Architect and maintain event-driven data pipelines that process billions of mobile signals daily, ensuring low-latency and highly available services
• Collaborate with data scientists and product teams to integrate ML models and sophisticated targeting logic into the bidding process to achieve optimal campaign performance
• Work with our evolving stack, including Go, Ruby on Rails, Aerospike, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redshift, ScyllaDB, GraphQL, and other emerging technologies
• Write performance-efficient, memory-optimized code and continually refine services for reliability, scalability, and speed
• Partner with analytics and data engineering to build and optimize reporting systems that surface actionable insights for our clients’ user acquisition campaigns

Skills

• 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!

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