Software Engineer, Ad Formats

About Reddit

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 one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

About the Role

The New Ad Formats team is seeking a skilled full stack engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the New Ad Formats team.

This team’s focus areas include:

• Building new formats with functionality that delights our advertisers
• Enable formats on various surfaces/placements
• Establish product market fit
• Iterate and pivot based on advertiser needs and product feedback
• Continually improving the technical foundations used for Ad Formats

Reddit has a strong following of users who come to Reddit to find content and have deep discussions they are interested in. Reddit offers unique and high engagement conversations, we’re the home of conversation on the internet. Our communities achieve fun, exciting, quirky things when they band together. Over the last few years we have been growing multiple ads types and now are a sizable ads player. The Ad Formats team has multiple ad formats that it supports and new ones it innovates on continuously. This is where this team comes in to build new products from 0 to V1 and V2, establish product market fit and help scale it. This includes both products that are industry unique and products that are newer to Reddit but have established demand in the ads industry.

Responsibilities

• Build Ad experiences and create patterns for Reddit’s official web page 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.

Required Qualifications

• Proficiency in frontend engineering, with 3-5 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 within the constraints of a smartphone environment
• An openness to explore innovative approaches to software development
• Able to work full stack: making small to medium sized changes to backend and DB schemas

Bonus Points

• Experience working on ad tech
• Experience working on premier consumer facing sites (high production value at scale)

Technologies Used

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

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

Location & Employment Type

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.

Pay Transparency

This job posting may span more than one career level. 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. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.