Principal Software Engineer, Ads Formats

Principal Software Engineer, Ads Formats - reddit

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Location: CAN remote-friendly

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly and will continue to be after the pandemic.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:

Expanding Ad Inventory

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!

Responsibilities:

Lead projects from concept, design, implementation, to rollout, ensuring the highest quality and performance.

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.

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.

Advice on Ad review and brand safety enhancements

Mentor staff engineers and leaders, share industry knowledge, and contribute to the technical growth of the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

10+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer. A technical leader who has led complex, cross-departmental projects that impact critical business metrics

5+ years of experience working across various components in the ads system, including Ads Formats, Campaign Management, Ads Reporting, Ad Serving and Ad Ranking

Has worked on a product that has a consumer usage (Ad Formats, Ad Reporting, Ad Manager, Ad Insights). Able to work with a vertical team (Full Stack Team)

Familiarity with Ads privacy (GDPR, CCPA, ePD, ATT, etc.)

A proven track record of delivering high impact ads products

Capable of designing, implementing, testing, and launching complex product and infrastructure changes across the entire Ads stack

Strong ability to deliver through others as well as doing hands-on work

An adept communicator and has experience communicating and updating executives

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Matching

Workspace benefits for your home office

Personal & Professional development funds

Family Planning Support

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days

4+ months paid Parental Leave

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 you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.

Last updated: 18 hours ago