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. The Engineering Manager I role involves leading a team of backend engineers, overseeing the creative pipeline, and ensuring successful project execution while fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of backend engineers who own the creative pipeline, supporting their day-to-day execution and removing blockers so the team ships reliably
- Execute on roadmap milestones defined with Product and senior engineering leadership; break initiatives down into well-scoped sprints and track delivery, flagging risks and delays to stakeholders early
- Run the team's agile rituals (stand-ups, planning, retros) and continuously monitor sprint health — velocity, workload balance — to prevent burnout and keep commitments realistic
- Conduct regular 1:1s, give timely tactical feedback, build psychological safety, and support engineers in executing on their growth plans; surface performance concerns to leadership early
- Stay close to the technology: participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, uphold coding and testing standards, and help the team make sound, scalable component-level design decisions
- Coordinate with peer teams (Bidding, Data Science, Product) on immediate cross-team dependencies affecting creative serving and selection
- Participate in incident resolution and support the team's on-call rotation; ensure production issues are followed through to root cause
- Participate in interviews and provide hiring feedback; help onboard new team members smoothly
- Encourage adoption of approved AI tooling (code generation, debugging, documentation) to raise team velocity
- Model StackAdapt's values in daily work and foster a culture of trust, transparency, and technical excellence
Skills
- Experience in adtech or martech, experience with (and not exclusively to) creative serving in a programmatic advertising space, understanding of different advertising channels and how they work together to serve creatives to users
- Experience with Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), and ad markup and rendering
- 1+ years of people management experience, or 2+ years as a tech lead / mentor for a backend team, with a desire to grow into a career manager
- 5+ years of backend development experience in distributed systems, microservices, and high-throughput, low-latency services
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Golang preferred; Java, Kotlin, C++, Rust, or similar)
- A hands-on leadership style — comfortable reviewing code, debating architecture, and diving into production incidents alongside the team
- Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms
- Working knowledge of modern development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and a track record of delivering on committed milestones
- Clear, transparent communication with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders (Product, Project Management)
- Hands-on experience with our stack
- Frontend development experience, understanding of web technologies and how creatives are served and rendered in the browser, and frontend device
- Experience operating systems under global compliance and privacy frameworks
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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