Director, Engineering

Engineering at StackAdapt

As a Director, Engineering at StackAdapt, you will be directly involved in leading teams responsible for building and evolving the backend systems that power our advertising platform. You will work with large-scale distributed systems, real-time data processing, user identity, integrations, and activation services that are critical to StackAdapt's success. StackAdapt's engineering organization believes in working collaboratively and cross-functionally. You will have the opportunity to work in a diverse and flexible culture with dedicated career paths to help you succeed.

We are looking for a Director, Engineering to lead teams responsible for building and scaling backend services across user data, integrations, and activation domains. The ideal candidate will excel as a leader of leaders, overseeing multiple engineering teams while driving technical strategy, organizational growth, and operational excellence.

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What You'll Do

Leadership & Strategy

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large backend engineering organization, aligning engineering investments with business and product goals.
• Lead, mentor, and grow multiple engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of high performance, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Drive technical decision-making and establish standards for architecture, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Help develop future engineering leaders and support organizational growth as the company continues to scale.

Backend & Technical Excellence

• Oversee the design and evolution of backend systems supporting user identity, integrations, activation, and data processing capabilities.
• Ensure systems support high-scale, low-latency, and highly available workloads.
• Partner with Infrastructure, SRE, Product, and Data teams to improve reliability, observability, and operational efficiency.
• Champion best practices in software development, distributed systems design, and engineering excellence.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Revenue, Finance, Data Science, and Engineering teams to align technical priorities with business objectives.
• Build strong partnerships across the organization and represent engineering in strategic initiatives.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Execution & Delivery

• Translate strategic goals into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and scalability.
• Use metrics to evaluate reliability, team effectiveness, and delivery outcomes.

What You Bring

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 8+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers in a high-scale SaaS, infrastructure, or data-intensive environment.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, and large-scale backend services.
• Track record of developing engineering leaders and building high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in AdTech, MarTech, identity platforms, data platforms, or real-time systems is a strong asset but not required.