Senior Software Engineer, Creatives

Role Description

The Programmatic Bidding team powers our Adtech platform by processing billions of ad auctions every day at millisecond latency. Our Bidding team designs and builds scalable microservices that span every core aspect of the Adtech pipeline—including:

• Pacing
• Machine learning
• Bid price optimization
• User-profile enrichment

The StackAdapt bidding platform supports hundreds of thousands of advertisers, delivering real-time, intelligent, and performant bidding decisions ensuring that every bid is both efficient and strategically aligned with our customer's business goals.

The ideal candidates we're looking for must have proven experience in Adtech, exceptional analytical thinking, and superior execution skills. You'll thrive here if you are eager to build and experiment with new technologies and approaches, and can back your ideas with rigorous analysis and data-driven, pragmatic approaches.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and collaborate with a team of engineers to design, implement, and optimize our programmatic bidding systems.
• Apply analytical, data-driven, and statistical methodologies to problem solving.
• Continuously optimize programmatic performance through experimentation and quantitative analysis.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to architect and build complex, innovative solutions that push the boundaries of programmatic advertising capabilities.
• Rigorously optimize large-scale distributed systems capable of handling billions of requests per second with ms-level latency.
• Partner with Product teams to ship innovative features that advance the company's vision.
• Embody the team mission and ground development efforts in pragmatic, results-oriented decision making.
• Foster operational excellence across engineering and backend teams by cultivating a culture of trust, transparency, and technical excellence.
• Clearly articulate development ideas and hypotheses, and openly embrace technical feedback to support collaborative innovation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in AdTech or MarTech, ideally working on high-scale or performance-critical systems.
• Advanced programming expertise in Go (or strong proficiency in comparable languages such as C++, Java, Scala, or Rust).
• Experience applying machine learning, mathematics, and numerical methods.
• 5+ years of experience in software development, particularly building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with multiple database systems, with a solid grasp of their trade-offs and performance considerations.
• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
• Up-to-date knowledge of modern technologies, tools, and frameworks, with curiosity to continuously learn and evolve.
• Bonus: Interest or experience in computational graphics, GPU programming, game development, game theory, or financial trading systems.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Retirement/401K/Pension Savings globally
• Competitive Paid time off packages including birthdays 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
• 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!