Engineering Manager - Ad Formats Foundation

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• 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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