iOS Software Engineer, Ad Formats

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.

The Brand Ad Formats team drives the development of 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. The team is working on multiple new formats including a fully customizable interactive ad format, and an ad format that uses AI to incorporate User-Generated Content.

This role is remote within the United States.

Responsibilities

• Build Ad experiences and create patterns for Reddit’s iOS app that enhance our ads’ performance and functionality.
• Collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions for complex challenges.
• Engage in the full development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Proficiency in iOS engineering and the Swift programming language, with at least 3 years of experience in software development.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps.
• An openness to explore innovative approaches to software development.

Bonus

• Experience working on ad tech.
• Able to work full stack.

Technologies used on the team

• Languages: Swift, Go, Python
• Frameworks: SliceKit, Thrift, gRPC
• Datastores: Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQuery
• Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

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

Pay Transparency

The base pay range for this position is:

$164,200 - $229,900 USD

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees and additional details are available on their careers site.

Other Notes

• In select roles and locations, interviews may be recorded, transcribed and summarized by AI; candidates can opt out prior to scheduled interviews.
• The company collects certain categories of personal information during interviews for evaluation and will delete recordings after a hiring decision is made.
• Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.