About the position
Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. We’re currently hiring across three distinct teams: Ad Formats, Ads Business Manager, and Advertiser Growth. The Ads Creative Management team focuses on the tools and systems advertisers use to create and manage their ad content. The Business Manager team stands out for its genuinely inclusive and collaborative culture, where open feedback is central, and every opinion and idea is valued. This is a Generalist Senior Backend Engineer position within the Ads Organization. As a backend engineer on the team, candidates might work on microservices and APIs that power our advertiser-facing product, distributed systems that ensure the right ad gets shown to the right user at the right time, and real-time, data-intensive systems that measure the performance of our ad campaigns.
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.
Requirements
- 5+ 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.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working in the Ads domain.
- Experience or interest in the advertising business and understanding customer needs.
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
