Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads Formats

Reddit, Inc.; Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Reddit is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer focusing on Ads Formats. This position involves enhancing ad product development, optimizing user experiences, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in ad-tech and be a strong collaborator across teams.

Benefits

401k Matching

Workspace benefits for your home office

Family Planning Support

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days

Paid Volunteer time off

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Expertise in Ad-tech ecosystem.
• Excellent communication skills with experience updating executives.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for enhancing ad value.
• Lead projects from concept to rollout.
• Mentor staff engineers and contribute to technical growth.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Ad-tech expertise

Communication

Job description

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads Formats

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

• 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.
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• Paid Volunteer time off

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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