Engineering Manager II, Creatives

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $228k - $313.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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StackAdapt

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

💰 $235M Private Equity Round - StackAdapt on 2025-02

Marketing • SaaS • Media

StackAdapt is an AI-powered programmatic marketing platform and demand-side platform (DSP) that helps advertisers, agencies, and brands plan, execute, and optimize multi-channel digital advertising campaigns. The platform uses machine learning and first‑party data to provide advanced audience targeting, contextual and location-based targeting, creative optimization, and real-time campaign analytics across channels like connected TV, display, native, video, audio, in-game, digital out-of-home, and email. StackAdapt offers enterprise-grade solutions, client services, an API, and tools for creatives and reporting to support full-funnel advertising at scale.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of backend engineers owning the creative pipeline • Support day-to-day execution and remove blockers so the team ships reliably • Execute roadmap milestones defined with Product and senior engineering leadership • Break initiatives into well-scoped sprints and track delivery, flagging risks and delays early • Run stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, and monitor sprint health • Conduct regular 1:1s, provide tactical feedback, build psychological safety, and support engineers' growth plans • Surface performance concerns to leadership early • Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions • Uphold coding and testing standards and guide scalable component-level design decisions • Coordinate with Bidding, Data Science, and Product on cross-team dependencies • Participate in incident resolution and support the team's on-call rotation • Ensure production issues are followed through to root cause • Participate in interviews, provide hiring feedback, and onboard new team members • Encourage adoption of approved AI tooling for code generation, debugging, and documentation • Model StackAdapt's values and foster trust, transparency, and technical excellence

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in adtech or martech, including 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), 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) • Hands-on leadership style, including code review, architecture discussions, and production incident involvement • Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms • Working knowledge of Scrum and Kanban • Track record of delivering committed milestones • Clear, transparent communication with technical teams and non-technical stakeholders • Hands-on experience with the team's technology stack • Frontend development experience, web technologies, browser creative serving/rendering, and frontend device (nice to have) • Experience operating systems under global compliance and privacy frameworks (nice to have)

🏖️ 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! • Additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, depending on the role

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