Director, Engineering

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 a Director, Engineering at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in leading teams responsible for building and evolving the backend systems that power our advertising platform. You will work with large-scale distributed systems, real-time data processing, user identity, integrations, and activation services that are critical to StackAdapt's success. StackAdapt's engineering organization believes in working collaboratively and cross-functionally. You will have the opportunity to work in a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed.

We are looking for a Director, Engineering to lead teams responsible for building and scaling backend services across user data, integrations, and activation domains. The ideal candidate will excel as a leader of leaders, overseeing multiple engineering teams while driving technical strategy, organizational growth, and operational excellence.

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What You'll Do

Leadership & Strategy

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large backend engineering organization, aligning engineering investments with business and product goals.
• Lead, mentor, and grow multiple engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of high performance, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Drive technical decision-making and establish standards for architecture, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Help develop future engineering leaders and support organizational growth as the company continues to scale.

Backend & Technical Excellence

• Oversee the design and evolution of backend systems supporting user identity, integrations, activation, and data processing capabilities.
• Ensure systems support high-scale, low-latency, and highly available workloads.
• Partner with Infrastructure, SRE, Product, and Data teams to improve reliability, observability, and operational efficiency.
• Champion best practices in software development, distributed systems design, and engineering excellence.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Revenue, Finance, Data Science, and Engineering teams to align technical priorities with business objectives.
• Build strong partnerships across the organization and represent engineering in strategic initiatives.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Execution & Delivery

• Translate strategic goals into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and scalability.
• Use metrics to evaluate reliability, team effectiveness, and delivery outcomes.

What You Bring

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 8+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers in a high-scale SaaS, infrastructure, or data-intensive environment.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, and large-scale backend services.
• Track record of developing engineering leaders and building high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in AdTech, MarTech, identity platforms, data platforms, or real-time systems is a strong asset but not required.

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!

Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.

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.

We use artificial intelligence to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.

About StackAdapt

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