Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads Formats

2 Months ago • 10 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $232,500 PA - $325,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Ads Formats Org at Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to enhance user experiences and meet advertisers' marketing goals. This role involves improving product development, standardizing infrastructure, and innovating new formats. The engineer will lead projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor other engineers to create scalable solutions. The role requires understanding pre-click and post-click enhancements, leading projects from concept to rollout, collaborating with designers and product managers, and connecting with various ad teams. The ideal candidate will be adept at communication, and have experience communicating with and updating executives.
Must have:
  • 10+ years of Technical Leadership experience
  • Experience as Senior Staff or above for more than 2 years
  • 5+ years in Ads Domain, expert in Ad-tech ecosystem
  • Shipped software with consumer usage (Ad Formats, Reporting, Manager, Insights)
  • Understands the privacy landscape and has negotiated with privacy teams on behalf of ads
  • Track record of delivering high impact ads products
  • Familiar with Ads privacy (GDPR, CCPA, ePD, ATT, etc.)
  • Ability to deliver through others as well as doing hands-on work
  • Adept communicator with experience communicating with and updating executives
Perks:
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
  • 401k Matching
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days
  • 4+ months 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 flexible first workforce! if you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely from the United States or Canada.

The Ads Formats Org is committed to enhancing our already thriving Ad formats by improving user experiences that align with advertisers’ marketing goals. We focus on 

  • Expanding Ad Inventory
  • Enabling Ads on New Placements
  • Optimizing the Ad User Experience
  • Enhancing Post-Click and Pre-Click Interactions
  • Supporting the Ads/Consumer Ecosystem changes to increase DAU
  • Infrastructure Enhancements for Ad Products
  • Innovating New Formats and establishing Product-Market Fit

Our environment is fast-paced, and our team is nimble and adaptive to advertiser feedback.

We are currently seeking a hands-on technical engineering leader with experience in building Ad formats/products and infrastructure innovation. The role involves enhancing product development velocity, standardizing formats infrastructure, considering end-to-end impact (Ad rendering, Ad serving, ranking, measurement), and accelerating new formats innovation. We value someone who can collaborate across organizational and functional boundaries to find solutions and is unafraid to dive into the details to create scalable solutions. As a diverse team of software developers, product managers, data scientists, and Ad experts, we look forward to welcoming you to our team!

Minimum Qualifications:

Here are some specifics for an ideal candidate:

  • Has at least 10 years of Technical Leadership experience
  • Has operated as Senior Staff or above for more than 2 years
  • Has worked in Ads Domain for more than 5 years and is an expert in Ad-tech internal and ecosystem. 
  • Shipped software that has a consumer usage (Ad Formats, Ad Reporting, Ad Manager, Ad Insights). Lead/Drove work through vertical team(s) (Full Stack Team, backend, web and mobile). 
  • Understands privacy landscape and has negotiated with privacy teams on behalf of ads. 
  • Candidate has a track record of delivering high impact ads products.
  • Candidate is familiar with Ads privacy (GDPR, CCPA, ePD, ATT, etc.) 
  • Candidate can deliver through others as well as doing hands-on work
  • Candidate is an adept communicator and has experience communicating with and updating executives.  

 

Responsibilities:

  • Identify opportunities to enhance value for our advertisers by understanding the various aspects of pre-click, post-click enhancements and ensuring it matches well with company priorities. 
  • Enhance infrastructure to make enhancements of formats faster and increase portability of solutions across the various placements. 
  • Lead projects from concept, design, implementation, to rollout, ensuring the highest quality and performance.
  • Bring in ideas from across the industry to enhance the Ad product portfolio. 
  • Collaborate with designers and product managers to discover and build new Ad functionality and products. Be a thought leader in this process. 
  • Connect across various ad teams to create advertiser value by focusing across end to end solutions
  • Mentor staff engineers and leaders, share industry knowledge, and contribute to the technical growth of the team.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
  • 401k Matching 
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days
  • 4+ months paid Parental Leave  
  • Paid Volunteer time off

 

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