
Staff Full Stack Engineer, Planning
StackAdaptPosted 4/30/2025

Staff Full Stack Engineer, Planning
StackAdapt
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Job Summary
StackAdapt is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer to lead their growing full-stack engineering team. As an engineer, you will work with large data sets and modern tech stacks like GoLang, Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and more. You will collaborate with stakeholders from Data Science, Product & Design, and other senior engineers to identify and solve technical challenges that drive impact across teams. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX, knowledge of full-stack technologies, and a test-driven approach to writing code. StackAdapt offers a competitive salary, RRSP/401K matching, 3 weeks vacation + 3 personal care days, and access to comprehensive mental health care. The company is Remote First and open to candidates located anywhere in North America.
Job Description
What You'll Be Doing
- Plays a key role in consistently advising the team on pragmatic technical approaches to problems that encourage engineering excellence and developer happiness
- Can structure coherent and iterative actionable plans toward delivering effective solutions across the planning surface
- Plans ahead by strategically architecting scalable web APIs, component libraries and backend systems that serve the team roadmap goals
- Collaborate with stakeholders from Data Science, Product & Design and other senior engineers across the organization to identify and solve technical challenges that drive impact across teams
- Advise teams on technical debt consolidation in ways that efficiently service our business needs
- Mentor the team and lead by example to uphold software development best practices in addition to conducting rigorous code and tech spec reviews
- Identify bottle-necks and general system-wide performance issues and offer actionable solutions to address them
- Be a significant individual contributor and a key asset in delivering critical projects that ultimately bring value to our customers
What You'll Bring to the Table
- 6+ years of experience building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX.
- Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is highly preferred - React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails and Go.
- Extensive experience working with a test driven approach to writing code with one or more of our core full-stack (or comparable) technologies
- Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences.
- Experience working with relational databases and key-value storesExperience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application performance across the entire stack.
- Experience leading large scale modernization efforts to revamp legacy systems from start to finish.
- An appetite for unpacking complexity and simplifying it wherever possible.
StackAdapters Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salaryRRSP/401K matching
- 3 weeks vacation + 3 personal care days + 1 Culture & Belief day + birthdays off
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care platform
- Full benefits from day one of employmentWork 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, etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave policy
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive cultureOur social and team events!