Senior Software Engineer, Chatbot AI

StackAdapt is a self-serve advertising platform that specializes in multi-channel solutions including native, display, video, connected TV, audio, in-game, and digital out-of-home ads. We empower hundreds of digitally-focused companies to deliver outcomes and exceptional campaign performance everyday. StackAdapt was founded with a vision to be more than an advertising platform, it’s a hub of innovation, imagination and creativity.

Ranking the highest in performance by G2 Crowd for the fourth time, we're one of the fastest growing companies in Canada and ranks 6th in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 ranking and 23rd in Fast 500 in North America.

We're always keeping an eye out for talented developers as we build cutting edge software. The digital advertising industry is riddled with interesting challenges as we continue to scale out our platform with a fast growing list of customers. Our technologies include Ruby on Rails, Go, React, Typescript, GraphQL, Aerospike, Redis, Elasticsearch, Amazon Redshift, and others.

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StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in North America for this position.

About the team: The AI Copilot team is focused on building a copilot platform experience where users can optimize their digital advertising campaigns by blending an LLM chat-based copilot with the precision and control of traditional UI elements. Our approach ensures users can navigate complex setups by expressing their intentions, such as targeting specific audiences or setting campaign budgets, with the copilot automatically configuring the UI and offering clear, actionable suggestions based on campaign insights.

The team is also improving our internal copilot that currently answers hundreds of questions from StackAdapters on a daily basis. Our vision is to advance our internal copilot’s capabilities to be a subject matter expert that StackAdapters can consult with to better plan & execute their campaigns in verticals they’re unfamiliar with.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the design, architecture & implementation of the copilot framework that enables our chat copilot to understand the react view’s context, the available client-side actions that’s exposed as part of the view and recommended workflows that can be orchestrated by the LLM-based copilot
• Contribute to our internal copilot capabilities by integrating new data sources such as snowflake & salesforce and building new backend APIs that’d enable our copilot to surface insights to help users make data-driven decisions
• Collaborate with stakeholders and other senior engineers across the organization to identify and solve technical challenges related to expanding our copilot’s capabilities in different platform domains
• Identify bottle-necks and general system wide performance issues and offer actionable solutions to address them
• Conduct technical interviews to attract and identify potential high performing candidates

What You'll Bring to The Table

• 4+ years of experience building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX
• Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is highly preferred - React, Typescript, GraphQL and Python
• Experience building and managing ELT pipelines for efficient and scalable data workflows
• 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 building fullstack conversational UX such as chatbots including underlying backend technologies that powers them such as LLMs & RAG
• Experience working on large scale Python projects
• Knowledge of AWS or other equivalent cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience in the AdTech industry is a plus

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 learningAn awesome parental leave policy
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive cultureOur social and team events!