Engineering Manager - Ad Formats Foundation
Reddit has a strong following of users who come to reddit to find content and have deep discussions around their interests. Reddit offers unique and high engagement conversations, we’re the home of communities on the internet. Our communities achieve fun, exciting, and quirky things when they band together. Over the last few years we have been growing our advertising business and now are a sizable ads player with over 1B in revenue. We have multiple ad formats like image/video/carousels/etc that advertisers rely on for their goals. This is where the Ad Formats team comes into play in developing these formats to their V2 to V10 and beyond.
The team builds and evolves ad formats to deliver strong user experiences that align with advertisers marketing goals. They expand ad inventory by enabling ads on new placements, optimize user experience, support the ads/consumer ecosystem to ensure efforts for user growth happen in tandem with ads revenue, and develop infrastructure to scale ad products.
The Engineering Manager (EM) for the Ad Formats Foundations team will lead and manage a team of highly technical engineers across iOS, Android, Web, and Backend domains, focusing on continuously improving the ad formats' common infrastructure to enhance developer efficiency and system reliability. They will oversee infrastructure updates, tech stack migrations, scalability investments, and compliance needs. The EM will provide technical leadership, ensuring best practices and system stability, while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. A key focus will be driving projects related to infrastructure, compliance, and developer efficiency, ensuring the foundation for ad formats remains robust and scalable. Additionally, the EM will manage team resources and ensure projects align with team and company goals.
Your team will focus on...
- Scalability investments to support growth of Ad Formats
- Build infrastructure to iterate and move faster
- Improve reliability and developer efficiency
- Modern tech stack migrations
- Compliance needs
Responsibilities:
- Build and expand a team of frontend, backend, fullstack and mobile engineers.
- Collaborate with engineering leaders across the company to discover and build solid foundations for ad products
- Maintain and enhance the team culture of fast moving high quality products delivery and iteration.
- Ensure the long term success of both product and people growth
- Participate in and be the ultimate owner of the full development cycle: product ideation, design, development, QA, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be brainstorming, giving feedback on design docs, product specs and mocks, and generally helping out wherever is needed.
- Collaborate with multiple teams that either have a dependency on Ad Formats or that the team depends on to ensure area success.
- Be nimble in this fast moving space.
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience partnering with product managers and designers to build new products
- Knowledge of full stack product development practices (Frontend and Backend)
- Leadership experience collaborating across multiple teams to achieve goals
- Knowledge/experience with Ad Tech
- Knowledge/experience with social products
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
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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. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
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The base pay range for this position is:
$217,000 - $303,900 USD
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.
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