Staff Software Engineer, Developer Ecosystems

About Dev Eco Team:

The Developer Ecosystems team at StackAdapt focuses on building and supporting a thriving community of developers who integrate with, extend, and build upon our platform. We achieve this by providing essential tools, comprehensive documentation, and robust APIs, all designed to empower external developers and ensure their success. Our work also involves developing the necessary infrastructure to support our product offerings. We work closely with numerous internal teams to create solutions that benefit our users across various platforms, including our web platform, partner sites, applications, and AI assistants. Additionally, we actively engage with external partner developers, offering guidance and assistance to help them understand and resolve their challenges.

About Staff Engineer:

We are entering a new chapter in software development - driven primarily by LLMs, more people now can start building solutions. To meet this emerging need, we are significantly increasing our investment in building a best-in-class ecosystem to power the next generation of our agents and MCP tools. As the technical leader, you will collaborate with various feature teams, ML engineers, and infrastructure teams to deliver customer value, and partner with management to establish the technical vision, strategy, and execution.

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.