Summer 2023
Software Engineer Intern
Backend, Canada
Posted on 7/28/2023
StackAdapt
1,001-5,000 employees
Demand-side platform for programmatic ads
No salary listed
Canada
Bachelor's, Master's, MBA, PharmD, PhD, Associate's
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- Contribute to technical planning and architectural decision-making
- Collaborating with team members on designing complex, scalable, well tested, and well documented Backend software
- Ability to take responsibility and ownership of projects
- Contribute to code reviews and cross-team collaboration with product managers and designers
- Write extensible scalable and test-driven software, either in teams or individually depending on the scope of the project
- Working with a designated mentor throughout the internship for technical and career growth direction
- Having experience with SQL-based databases and writing complex queries for reporting purposes
- Building highly scalable, distributed real-time micro-services primarily written in Go
- Building highly scalable, distributed real-time micro-services primarily written in Go
- Working with large data sets and various databases including Aerospike, Elasticsearch, Redis, ScyllaDB, Redshift, TiDB, MariaDB
- Build software that utilize messaging queues such as Kafka, SQS, and Kinesis
- Write performance efficient and memory optimized code
StackAdapt provides a platform for programmatic advertising, using a Demand Side Platform to buy digital ad space across display, video, native, and Connected TV automatically. Advertisers run campaigns through real-time bidding and centralized inventory sourcing, with a Creative Studio to optimize ad creatives. It differentiates itself with flexible pricing without monthly minimums, a large native advertising footprint with many integrations and supply partners, and extensive cross-channel inventory. Its goal is to help brands and agencies maximize digital advertising results by making it easier to plan, execute, and optimize campaigns.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$304.3M
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- June 18, 2026 StackAdapt dropped minimum spend for ChatGPT ads, widening access immediately.
- August 4, 2026 ADWEEK honored StackAdapt's CTV/OTT product, validating premium video execution.
- March 17, 2026 G2 ranked StackAdapt number one in cross-channel advertising, reinforcing buyer trust.
What critics are saying
- August 2026 Fair Work Act lawsuit by Berina Colakovic exposes management and culture risk.
- OpenAI dependency inside Ivy Studio hands core differentiation to a platform rival.
- If ChatGPT ads scale faster, StackAdapt's DSP becomes a feature, not an independent business.
What makes StackAdapt unique
- July 28, 2026 Ivy Studio unifies planning, forecasting, analysis, and execution inside StackAdapt.
- July 30, 2026 Economic Impact Report ties media exposure to $4 trillion consumer spend data.
- StackAdapt integrates 300-plus platform tools and OpenAI models for natural-language campaign operations.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Mental Health Support
401(k) Company Match
401(k) Retirement Plan
Paid Vacation
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Remote Work Options
Work-from-home reimbursements
Professional Development Budget
Conference Attendance Budget
Parental Leave
Company Equity
Competitive salary + equity
Flexible Work Hours
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Wellness Program
Gym Membership
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↑ 0%StackAdapt ties ROAS to $4 trillion in consumer spending data. The news: StackAdapt launched an in-platform measurement tool that ties advertising exposure to real-world purchase data, partnering with consumer transaction data company Affinity Solutions. The demand-side platform's (DSP's) Economic Impact Report draws on purchase data covering 100 million consumers - nearly one-third of the US population - giving advertisers a real-time view of return on ad spend (ROAS). Affinity's data includes more than $4 trillion in spending that covers over 5,000 brands, 150 million debit and credit cards, and over 85 billion transactions. StackAdapt built the tool around destinations, a design choice that extends its reach beyond travel marketers to any brand with a physical location, including retailers, restaurants, and other brick-and-mortar businesses. "Together with StackAdapt, we're enabling advertisers to move beyond proxy metrics and closed-system reporting by tying media exposure to real-world purchase outcomes," said Kalyan Lanka, chief product officer at Affinity Solutions, per a press release. Why this matters: The launch addresses a common complaint about digital measurement - a lack of trust that reported performance reflects real outcomes. * 78% of US marketing decision-makers believe at least 10% of their spend is wasted due to insufficient measurement, and 7% put that figure at 30% or more, per the Haus 2026 Marketing Decision Confidence Index. * About one-third of marketing leaders cite reliability concerns (34%), conflicting data (33%), and inconsistent measurement across channels (30%) as sources of that distrust. The tool closes that gap by giving advertisers a real-time ROAS view based on purchase data, allowing media buyers to adjust campaigns mid-flight instead of waiting for post-campaign reports. StackAdapt has been broadening outcome measurement across its ad formats. In Q4 2025, the company overhauled its programmatic out-of-home (OOH) platform to give buyers map views, screen previews, and venue-level pricing, directly addressing advertiser demand for proof of placement. Implications for marketers: Tying media exposure directly to purchase outcomes gives brands with physical locations a better way to connect digital ad spend to foot traffic and sales. Because the tool works in real time, media buyers can shift budget away from underperforming placements mid-campaign rather than discovering missed opportunities after the flight ends. * Test the tool's ROAS output against the attribution method currently used, since its data set might not represent every advertiser's customer base across geography or income level. * Look for competing DSPs to respond with similar purchase-linked measurement products. As pressure to prove ROI in real time builds across channels, tools that connect ad exposure to offline outcomes will be a baseline expectation for marketers. Read this with EMARKETER PRO+. Unlock unlimited insights with PRO+. You've read 0 of 2 free articles this month. Get more articles - create your free account today!
StackAdapt introduces Ivy Studio for ai-first advertising. The AI-first hub will help marketers discover audiences, evaluate campaigns, build forecasts, and develop advertising workflows within the StackAdapt platform. StackAdapt has introduced Ivy Studio, a new AI-first advertising hub designed to help marketers uncover opportunities, make decisions, and take action faster. Built within the StackAdapt platform, Ivy Studio allows marketers to define business outcomes while AI agents grounded in StackAdapt's advertising intelligence surface insights, recommend next steps, and help deliver campaigns. The platform is designed to address growing complexity across channels, audiences, measurement, and campaign optimization by shifting away from dashboard- and report-based workflows. Ivy Studio enables marketers to discover audiences, evaluate campaign performance, build forecasts, and make strategic decisions while retaining transparency and control. The platform is built on Ivy, StackAdapt's AI engine. According to the company, StackAdapt employees use Ivy to support more than 15,000 AI-assisted workflows each week across campaign management, reporting, and troubleshooting. The company also said nearly 70% of Ivy Studio usage is concentrated in its top 20 mission-critical workflows. "Ivy Studio streamlines campaigns by helping our team quickly identify and act on key performance drivers," said Kelsey Carey, Ad Operation Supervisor, AI & Innovation at Colour Media. "Its programmable skills allow us to pull routine metric reports across multiple campaigns into unified outputs, making it easier to analyse real-time insights and make data-driven decisions faster." "Ivy Studio changes the paradigm of how marketers use our platform," said Vitaly Pecherskiy, Co-Founder and CEO of StackAdapt. "By moving core capabilities into an AI-first environment, we are enabling teams to accomplish in minutes what previously took hours or even the coordination of multiple teams. We are fundamentally shifting from operating software to driving business growth." As part of Ivy Studio's continued development, StackAdapt said it is leveraging OpenAI's language models to develop AI capabilities for advertising and marketing workflows.
StackAdapt has launched its Economic Impact Report, an in-platform measurement tool that enables advertisers to measure real-world economic outcomes during live campaigns. The self-serve solution connects media exposure with actual consumer spending, allowing advertisers to optimise based on business impact rather than engagement metrics alone. Targeting travel marketers, destination organisations, and location-based brands, the tool uses Affinity Solutions' transaction data spanning over 150 million cards and $4 trillion in spending across 5,000-plus brands. Advertisers can track attributed visitor spend, return on ad spend, transaction numbers, and origin markets within the StackAdapt platform. The solution transforms economic impact measurement from post-campaign reporting into continuous optimisation, with results accessible directly in advertisers' workflows. StackAdapt describes the tool as offering closed-loop visibility into purchase outcomes following media exposure.
StackAdapt introduces Ivy Studio(TM), a new hub for ai-first advertising. StackAdapt Launches Ivy Studio AI Hub StackAdapt, the leading AI advertising and orchestration platform, today announced Ivy Studio(TM), a new AI-first advertising hub designed to help marketers uncover opportunities, make confident decisions, and take action faster. The launch marks the next step in StackAdapt's vision for the future of AI advertising, where agents help marketers transform business objectives into business outcomes. StackAdapt's AI-native systems proactively surface insights, recommend actions, and help orchestrate execution. As organizations increasingly look to incorporate AI into their workflows, marketing teams continue to face growing complexity across channels, audiences, measurement, and campaign optimization. Most advertising platforms are built around reactive workflows, requiring users to navigate dashboards, reports, and interfaces before meaningful action can be taken. As AI agents become increasingly common, StackAdapt believes the advantage will come from how well those agents understand advertising - not simply that they exist. Rather than asking marketers to learn software workflows, Ivy Studio enables marketers to define the outcomes they want to achieve, while AI agents grounded in StackAdapt's advertising intelligence help uncover insights, identify opportunities, recommend next steps, and move work forward. Built directly within the StackAdapt platform, Ivy Studio serves as a unified AI-first advertising hub for planning, forecasting, analysis, optimization, and execution. Leveraging AI agents, marketers can move from insight to action without switching between tools or workflows. Marketers can use natural language to discover audiences, evaluate campaign performance, build forecasts, identify opportunities, and take action from a unified interface. AI agents continuously provide supporting context and recommendations, enabling marketers to move faster while maintaining full transparency and control. "Ivy Studio streamlines campaign optimization by helping our team quickly identify and act on key performance drivers," says Kelsey Carey, Ad Operation Supervisor, AI & Innovation at Colour Media. "Its programmable skills allow us to pull routine metric reports across multiple campaigns into unified outputs, making it easier to analyze real-time insights and make data-driven decisions faster." "Ivy Studio changes the paradigm of how marketers use our platform. By moving core capabilities into an AI-first environment, we are enabling teams to accomplish in minutes what previously took hours or even the coordination of multiple teams. We are fundamentally shifting from operating software to driving business growth," said Vitaly Pecherskiy, Co-Founder and CEO of StackAdapt. Ivy Studio is built on Ivy, StackAdapt's AI engine, and leverages agents to help marketers analyze advertising context, uncover opportunities, recommend actions, and execute work from a unified hub. StackAdapt employees now use Ivy to power more than 15,000 AI-assisted workflows every week across campaign management, reporting, troubleshooting, and optimization. Nearly 70% of Ivy Studio usage is concentrated in top 20 mission-critical workflows, reflecting strong adoption of AI for the tasks that matter most. By bringing intelligence and execution together, Ivy Studio helps marketers reduce operational complexity, accelerate decision-making, and move from insight to action faster while maintaining full transparency and control. As part of Ivy Studio's continued evolution, StackAdapt is leveraging OpenAI's advanced language models to develop bespoke AI capabilities purpose-built for advertising and marketing. These capabilities extend Ivy Studio with AI experiences designed specifically for the workflows of modern advertisers. As AI becomes increasingly embedded across every stage of advertising, from planning and audience discovery to campaign execution and measurement, marketers will spend less time operating software and more time focusing on strategy, creativity, and business outcomes. About StackAdapt StackAdapt is the leading AI advertising and orchestration platform marketers rely on to drive brand growth and revenue. Built entirely in-house with an easy-to-use interface, StackAdapt unifies programmatic and owned channels - including CTV, DOOH, display, native, audio, email, and more - into one seamless experience. The platform makes it easy to find the right audience, personalize creative, run campaigns, optimize, and measure results in one place. Trusted by the most forward-thinking brands and agencies, StackAdapt combines speed of innovation, deep vertical expertise, and partnership that powers real business growth. AdTech Edge is a leading digital publication covering the latest developments in advertising technology, AI-driven marketing, programmatic advertising, retail media, connected TV (CTV), data privacy, media buying, and digital advertising innovation.
StackAdapt has launched Ivy Studio, an AI-first advertising hub designed to help marketers make faster decisions and take action more efficiently. The platform enables users to employ natural language for tasks including audience discovery, campaign performance evaluation, and forecasting from a unified interface. Built on StackAdapt's AI engine Ivy, the studio uses AI agents to analyse advertising context, uncover opportunities, and execute workflows. StackAdapt employees currently use Ivy to power over 15,000 AI-assisted workflows weekly across campaign management and optimisation. Nearly 70% of Ivy Studio usage focuses on the top 20 mission-critical workflows. The platform integrates planning, forecasting, analysis, optimisation, and execution within StackAdapt's existing system. StackAdapt is partnering with OpenAI to develop specialised AI capabilities for advertising and marketing workflows.