Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads Formats

Details

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, hosting over 100,000 active communities with about 101M+ daily active unique visitors. The Ads Formats Org focuses on improving user experiences aligned with advertisers’ marketing goals through expanding ad inventory, enabling ads on new placements, optimizing ad user experience, enhancing post-click and pre-click interactions, supporting ads/consumer ecosystem changes to increase daily active users, infrastructure enhancements, and innovating new formats.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to enhance advertiser value via pre-click and post-click improvements aligned with company priorities.
• Enhance infrastructure to speed up format improvements and increase solution portability across placements.
• Lead projects from concept to rollout ensuring high quality and performance.
• Innovate by bringing ideas from the industry to expand the Ad product portfolio.
• Collaborate with designers and product managers to discover and build new Ad functionalities and products, acting as a thought leader.
• Coordinate across advertising teams focusing on end-to-end solutions for advertiser value.
• Mentor staff engineers and leaders, share industry knowledge, and contribute to technical team growth.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of technical leadership experience.
• More than 2 years at Senior Staff level or above.
• Over 5 years experience in Ads domain with deep expertise in Ad-tech internal and ecosystem.
• Proven record of shipping software with consumer usage in Ad formats, reporting, manager, insights; experience leading full stack, backend, web, and mobile teams.
• Strong understanding and negotiation experience related to ads privacy (GDPR, CCPA, ePD, ATT, etc.).
• Track record of delivering high-impact ads products.
• Able to deliver through others and engage in hands-on work.
• Excellent communication and experience updating executives.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• 401k matching.
• Workspace benefits for home office.
• Personal and professional development funds.
• Family planning support.
• Flexible vacation and global wellness days.
• 4+ months paid parental leave.
• Paid volunteer time off.