Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Delivery

About the role

The Data Delivery team builds the systems that help StackAdapt customers and internal teams understand campaign performance. Our work turns raw activity into accurate and actionable insights, and we work closely with product managers, backend engineers, web engineers, data scientists, analysts, business teams, and customer-facing teams to make data accurate, timely, scalable, and easy to use.

Why this role matters

StackAdapt is expanding into the next generation of AI-powered advertising and marketing execution. As the platform grows across media, email, social, and emerging AI-powered channels, customers need a trusted view of performance across the full customer journey. The Data Delivery team is at the forefront of making this possible. We build the reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, API, export, and data-serving systems that help customers trust the data, understand performance, and optimize campaigns.

What you’ll be doing

• Shape the long-term architecture and technical direction for Data Delivery and related Stats & Analytics systems.
• Lead initiatives that span multiple teams, systems, and product areas, helping teams align on durable technical solutions.
• Build and guide systems that make it easier to launch new reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, export, and analytics capabilities.
• Make high-impact technical decisions across APIs, data pipelines, data models, distributed systems, storage, serving layers, and operational patterns.
• Work with product, engineering, data science, analytics, and business leaders to translate company priorities into technical roadmaps.
• Identify systemic gaps in reliability, scalability, data quality, developer experience, and operational ownership, then drive improvements.
• Clarify trade-offs around correctness, latency, freshness, cost, migration complexity, maintainability, and long-term platform leverage.
• Coach and mentor engineers, including senior engineers, through architecture reviews, design discussions, and strategic technical guidance.

What you’ll bring

• Broad technical leadership: Experience shaping technical direction across teams, domains, or large platform areas.
• Backend and data systems expertise: Deep experience building scalable services, distributed systems, data platforms, or data-intensive applications.
• Strategic system design: Strong judgment across APIs, data pipelines, databases, distributed systems, observability, reliability, and long-term architecture.
• Cross-functional influence: Ability to align engineering, product, data science, analytics, and business stakeholders around technical strategy.
• Platform thinking: Ability to design systems that create leverage for multiple teams and make future product development easier.
• Data quality mindset: Strong ability to reason about correctness, freshness, completeness, consistency, explainability, cost efficiency, and customer trust.
• Business and product judgment: Ability to connect technical investments to customer impact, product velocity, reliability, and long-term business value.
• Tech communication: Ability to explain complex technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentorship: Experience developing senior engineers and raising engineering standards across a team or domain.

What success looks like

• Data Delivery and the broader Stats & Analytics domain build trusted, scalable, and efficient data systems that enable faster product development and better customer outcomes.
• Data Delivery has a clear long-term technical direction that supports StackAdapt’s product and platform growth.
• Teams can launch new reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, export, and analytics capabilities faster and with greater confidence.
• Core data systems are more reliable, scalable, cost-efficient, and easier to evolve.
• Product and engineering teams have a stronger understanding of how Stats & Analytics systems fit together.
• Technical trade-offs are clearly understood, documented, and aligned across teams.
• Engineers around you grow through your mentorship, strategic guidance, and example.
• Data Delivery helps StackAdapt scale new advertising and marketing opportunities by giving customers a trusted view of performance across channels and the customer journey.

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