Staff Software Engineer, Ads Creative

4 Months ago • 7 Years + • $217,000 PA - $303,900 PA

Software Development & Engineering

Job Description

As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Ads Creative Management team, you will build tools that make it easier for advertisers to create relevant, effective, visually pleasing ads on Reddit. You will be responsible for writing clean, tested, and maintainable code, designing and building solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional partners. The role requires excellent communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to identify and resolve integration issues. The ideal candidate will leverage their knowledge of asset storage and management, AI/LLMs, and scaling services to develop world-class tooling and innovate on the behalf of our advertising partners. This includes executing on large-scale projects from start to finish and contributing to advertiser revenue growth.

Good To Have:

Ads industry experience.
Experience with LLMs and generative AI.

Must Have:

7+ years of software engineering experience in a staff role.
Experience executing large-scale projects from 0 to 1.
Mentoring and growing junior engineers.
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve integration issues.
Software development experience in Python, Golang, Rust, Java, or Javascript.

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

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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 is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. The Ads Creative Management team is building new tools to store, catalog, and optimize advertiser images, videos and text. As a key member of this fast-growing team, you will have lots of ownership and opportunity to be at the cutting edge of building AI-based tools from zero-to-one.

As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Ads Creative Management team, you will build tools that make it easier for advertisers to create relevant, effective, visually pleasing ads on Reddit. The ideal candidate will leverage their knowledge of asset storage and management, AI/LLMs, and scaling services to develop world-class tooling and innovate on the behalf of our advertising partners.

Responsibilities:

Execution: Write clean, well tested, maintainable code that adheres to best practices.
Integration: Design and build solutions that span systems, and own the software design end to end.
Communication: Work in partnership with management and senior leadership to ensure alignment between technical and business goals.
Collaboration: Work with cross functional partners for feature development, bug fixes, and new system design to gather input and requirements.
Problem Solving: Proactively identify technical challenges and propose innovative solutions that align with the team's goals and contribute to the overall success of advertiser revenue growth

Required Qualifications:

7+ years of experience as a software engineer with recent experience in a Staff role
Experience executing on large scale projects from 0 to 1
History of mentoring and growing junior engineers.
Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to perform system analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging to identify and resolve integration issues
Software development experience in one or more general purpose languages: Python, Golang, Rust, Java, Javascript, etc

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