Engineering Manager - Ad Formats Foundation

2 Months ago • 7 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $217,000 PA - $303,900 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Engineering Manager for the Ad Formats Foundations team will lead a team of engineers across iOS, Android, Web, and Backend, improving the ad formats' infrastructure to enhance developer efficiency and system reliability. This includes overseeing infrastructure updates, tech stack migrations, scalability investments, and compliance. The manager will provide technical leadership, ensuring best practices and system stability, while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include building and expanding the team, collaborating with other engineering leaders, maintaining a culture of high-quality product delivery, ensuring long-term product and people growth, and participating in the full development cycle. They will also collaborate with teams that depend on Ad Formats or that the team depends on and be nimble in this fast-moving space.
Must have:
  • 2+ years leading engineering teams
  • 7+ years as a software engineer
  • Experience partnering with product managers and designers
  • Knowledge of full stack product development
  • Leadership experience collaborating across multiple teams
  • Knowledge/experience with Ad Tech
  • Knowledge/experience with social products
Perks:
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
  • Generous paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Volunteer time off

Job Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com. Reddit has a strong following of users who come to reddit to find content and have deep discussions around their interests. Reddit offers unique and high engagement conversations, we’re the home of communities on the internet. Our communities achieve fun, exciting, and quirky things when they band together. Over the last few years we have been growing our advertising business and now are a sizable ads player with over 1B in revenue. We have multiple ad formats like image/video/carousels/etc that advertisers rely on for their goals. This is where the Ad Formats team comes into play in developing these formats to their V2 to V10 and beyond.  The team builds and evolves ad formats to deliver strong user experiences that align with advertisers marketing goals. They expand ad inventory by enabling ads on new placements, optimize user experience, support the ads/consumer ecosystem to ensure efforts for user growth happen in tandem with ads revenue, and develop infrastructure to scale ad products.  The Engineering Manager (EM) for the Ad Formats Foundations team will lead and manage a team of highly technical engineers across iOS, Android, Web, and Backend domains, focusing on continuously improving the ad formats' common infrastructure to enhance developer efficiency and system reliability. They will oversee infrastructure updates, tech stack migrations, scalability investments, and compliance needs. The EM will provide technical leadership, ensuring best practices and system stability, while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. A key focus will be driving projects related to infrastructure, compliance, and developer efficiency, ensuring the foundation for ad formats remains robust and scalable. Additionally, the EM will manage team resources and ensure projects align with team and company goals. Your team will focus on...
  • Scalability investments to support growth of Ad Formats
  • Build infrastructure to iterate and move faster 
  • Improve reliability and developer efficiency
  • Modern tech stack migrations
  • Compliance needs
Responsibilities:
  • Build and expand a team of frontend, backend, fullstack and mobile engineers. 
  • Collaborate with engineering leaders across the company to discover and build solid foundations for ad products
  • Maintain and enhance the team culture of fast moving high quality products delivery and iteration. 
  • Ensure the long term success of both product and people growth
  • Participate in and be the ultimate owner of the full development cycle: product ideation, design, development, QA, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be brainstorming, giving feedback on design docs, product specs and mocks, and generally helping out wherever is needed.
  • Collaborate with multiple teams that either have a dependency on Ad Formats or that the team depends on to ensure area success.
  • Be nimble in this fast moving space. 
Qualifications:
  • 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams
  • 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Experience partnering with product managers and designers to build new products
  • Knowledge of full stack product development practices (Frontend and Backend)
  • Leadership experience collaborating across multiple teams to achieve goals
  • Knowledge/experience with Ad Tech
  • Knowledge/experience with social products
Benefits:
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

  • 401k Match

  • Family Planning Support

  • Gender-Affirming Care

  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

  • Generous paid Parental Leave  

  • Paid Volunteer time off

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