Software Engineer, User Profile
stackadapt
Alberta, Canada; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Canada; Toronto; Vancouver · Alberta · Canada; Canada; Toronto; Vancouver
Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Other
- Remote
- Back-end Engineering
stackadapt
Alberta, Canada; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Canada; Toronto; Vancouver · Alberta · Canada; Canada; Toronto; Vancouver
Posted Jul 14, 2026
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.
The User Profile team at StackAdapt builds and scales the systems that power user identity, audience segmentation, and profile data across our advertising platform. We solve complex distributed systems challenges involving high-throughput data processing, low-latency services, and large-scale data management to enable real-time targeting, bidding, measurement, and marketing workflows.
We leverage a modern tech stack that includes Golang for high-performance backend services, Kafka for event streaming, Kubernetes for container orchestration, Redis and ScyllaDB for distributed data storage, and TiDB for scalable SQL workloads. Engineers on the team build resilient, highly available systems that process billions of events and profile updates while ensuring performance, reliability, and data consistency. This work spans profile ingestion, audience segmentation, and profile services that are foundational to StackAdapt's platform.
StackAdapt is a Remote First company. We are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada for this position.
Build highly scalable, distributed real-time microservices primarily written in Go.
Design and develop systems that ingest, process, and manage user profile and audience data at scale.
Build event-driven software utilizing messaging technologies such as Kafka.
Work with distributed databases and storage technologies including ScyllaDB, TiDB, and Redis.
Write performance-efficient, memory-optimized code that delivers reliable, low-latency services.
Collaborate with engineers across Product, Machine Learning, Data, and Infrastructure to build core platform capabilities.
2+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
Very strong problem solving skills in data structures, algorithms, and optimization.
Experience working with relational databases and/or distributed data stores.
Experience building scalable microservices and distributed systems.
Experience with Go, Java, Python, C++, or another modern backend programming language.
A passion for building reliable, high-performance systems that operate at scale.
The compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected base salary for candidates located in the posting country based on a global rate. It is informed by market data and the approved budget for this position. StackAdapt maintains different compensation ranges for roles across other countries and regions, and final offers will be aligned to the candidate’s current location. We do not ask candidates about current or prior salary history, and we will not use such information, if volunteered, in setting an offer.
This range represents base salary only. Depending on the role, candidates may also be eligible for additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package.
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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.