Software Engineer, Ad Formats New Remote - Ontario, Canada

Reddit, Inc.; Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a mid-level backend engineer in the Ads Organization, where your skills will help shape innovative advertising solutions. You'll work on exciting projects involving microservices, APIs, and real-time data systems, contributing to a dynamic team that values creativity and collaboration. This role offers the opportunity to grow your technical expertise while making a significant impact on the advertising landscape. Embrace a flexible work environment that supports both in-office and remote work, allowing you to thrive in your career while balancing your personal life.

Benefits

401k Matching

Workspace benefits for home office

Family Planning Support

Flexible Vacation

Paid Volunteer time off

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software development with strong coding skills.
• Ability to take ownership of features or projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Ads products with product managers.
• Collaborate with platform and data teams on new features.
• Improve operational stability and code quality.

Skills

Software Development

Microservices

APIs

Distributed Systems

Go

Python

Scala

Java

Job description

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 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 in any country in which we have a physical presence.

Team Description

Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. We’re currently hiring across three distinct teams:

Ad Safety & Verification Team

The mission of the Ads Safety & Verification team is to protect the Reddit ads ecosystem so that users have a safe ads experience and legitimate advertisers trust Reddit. This team builds full stack, high scale products that span Reddit’s consumer-facing apps and ads systems. They own integrations with metrics verification and brand safety partners and operate services that scale to reliably handle tens of millions of requests per day.

Ads Creative Management (ACM) Team

The Ads Creative Management team focuses on the tools and systems advertisers use to create and manage their ad content. From images and videos to headlines and full post creatives, they enable efficient creative management and innovation across the campaign lifecycle. They work closely with AI teams to provide intelligent content suggestions and automation, helping advertisers launch high-quality campaigns faster and more effectively.

Brand Innovation Team

The Brand Innovation team drives the development of new ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact. They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users. By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes. Their work includes evolving existing formats and launching entirely new ones to keep Reddit’s ad offerings fresh and competitive.

Role Description:

This is a generalist mid-level backend position within the Ads Organization. Ads is the fuel that powers Reddit’s mission. As a backend engineer on the team, candidates might work on:

• Microservices and APIs that power our advertiser-facing product, ads.reddit.com
• Distributed systems that ensure the right ad gets shown to the right user at the right time
• Backends that power interactive user experiences on our ads like Polls and Games
• Real time, data intensive systems that measure the performance of our ad campaigns
• Infrastructure that supports all of the above

Technologies used on the team include:

• Languages: Go, Python, Scala

Mid-level engineers are expected to absorb best practices and learn exceptionally quickly while being effective core contributors. Engineers at this level must be able to code independently, but may work with senior engineers on the design of complex solutions. The most important skills an engineer at this level must possess are 1) coachability and an eagerness to grow, 2) deep passion for coding, and 3) excellent independent learning skills, all while operating as a fully functioning member of an engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Work with product managers to design and implement Ads products.
• Collaborate closely with the platform and data teams while building new features.
• Lead the processes needed to improve operational stability, including improving code quality, delivering dashboards and data visualizations.
• Build extensible components that would align with the product objectives.
• Support day to day project management tasks including communicating project updates, managing project timelines and overseeing project execution.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Java, Scala, Go, C++, Python).
• Able to take complete ownership of a feature or project.

Bonus Points:

• Experience working in the Ads domain
• Experience or interest in the advertising business and understanding customer needs
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & 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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