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Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. The Ads Creative Management team is building new tools to store, catalog, and optimize advertiser images, videos and text. As a key member of this fast-growing team, you will have lots of ownership and opportunity to be at the cutting edge of building AI-based tools from zero-to-one.
As a Senior Backend engineer on the Ads Creative Management team, you will build tools that make it easier for advertisers to create relevant, effective, visually pleasing ads on Reddit. The ideal candidate will leverage their knowledge of asset storage and management, AI/LLMs, and scaling services to develop world-class tooling and innovate on the behalf of our advertising partners.
Responsibilities:
- Execution: Write clean, well tested, maintainable code that adheres to best practices.
- Integration: Design and build solutions that span systems, and own the software design end to end.
- Communication: Work in partnership with management and senior leadership to ensure alignment between technical and business goals.
- Collaboration: Work with cross functional partners for feature development, bug fixes, and new system design to gather input and requirements.
- Problem Solving: Proactively identify technical challenges and propose innovative solutions that align with the team's goals and contribute to the overall success of advertiser revenue growth
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with recent experience in a Senior role
- Experience executing on large scale projects from 0 to 1
- Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to perform system analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging to identify and resolve integration issues
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose languages: Python, Golang, Rust, Java, Javascript, etc
Bonus Points:
- Ads Industry experience
- Experience with LLMs and generative AI
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
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. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$190,800—$267,100 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 [email protected].
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