Director, Platform 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 an Director, Platform Engineering at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in leading teams in the development of our integrated marketing platform and having a direct impact on the success of our company. You will work with large data sets and have exposure to modern tech stacks React, Typescript, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Golang and more. StackAdapt's engineering organization believes in working collaboratively and cross functionally. You will get the opportunity to work in a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed. 

We are looking for a Director, Platform Engineering, Platform Engineering to lead the teams responsible for building and evolving the core platforms that power StackAdapt's products and engineering organization. The ideal candidate will excel at being a leader of leaders and overseeing multiple engineering teams. This role is both strategic and hands-on, focused on scalability, reliability, developer productivity, and operational excellence.

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What You'll Do
Leadership & Strategy

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Platform Engineering, aligning with StackAdapt's 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 set standards for platform architecture, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Advocate for platform investments that improve scalability, security, and developer experience.

Platform & Technical Excellence

• Oversee the design and evolution of shared platform capabilities such as internal frameworks, APIs, services, tooling, and developer infrastructure.
• Ensure the platform supports high-scale, low-latency, and highly available systems.
• Partner with Infrastructure and SRE teams to improve system reliability, observability, incident response, and cost efficiency.
• Champion best practices in software development, CI/CD, testing, and system design.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to understand their needs and enable faster, safer delivery of features.
• Collaborate with Data, Security, and Compliance stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities meet regulatory and privacy requirements.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Execution & Delivery

• Translate strategic goals into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health and scalability.
• Use metrics to evaluate platform adoption, reliability, and developer productivity.

What You Bring

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 10+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading web application teams in a high-scale SaaS or data-intensive environment.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and API-driven platforms.
• Experience building and scaling platforms that support multiple product teams.
• Track record of developing strong engineering leaders and building inclusive, high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in ad tech, martech, or real-time systems is a strong asset but not required.

StackAdapter's Enjoy:

• 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

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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