Senior Staff Software Engineer

  • Remote - Canada

Remote

Software Development

Senior

Job description

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 the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

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.

Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer as a technical leader for our Small to Medium Business (SMB) focused Advertiser Growth efforts.  In this role, you will be responsible for developing the technical foundation for mission critical product pillars, collaborating across the company to deliver outcomes for the Reddit Ads Business. This role provides an opportunity to partner closely with cross-functional teams such as product, design, marketing, data science, UX and Sales, and ultimately make a large number of small to medium businesses successful on Reddit. As a technical leader for all of these efforts, you will set the engineering strategy for building iteratively, shipping quickly, testing rigorously, and adding step-change capabilities towards our ambitious goals of multiplying many times over our number of monthly active advertisers.

This is an exciting moment in Reddit’s journey where we have the knowledge, resources and infrastructure to bring Reddit’s unique conversations product to more people and help more small businesses be successful on our platform. This is an impactful opportunity to lead a team through an existing period of worldwide user growth.

Responsibilities:

  • Identify opportunities to make more advertisers successful on the platform by acquiring, activating, and retaining monthly active advertisers
  • Build and enhance the correct technical foundations for the business, including choosing the right tools and technologies and working with other teams towards a shared engineering vision
  • Lead projects from concept, design, implementation, to rollout, ensuring the highest quality and performance.
  • Bring in ideas to solve our ambitious growth goals for the platform
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, product marketing managers, data scientists, sales, marketing, Consumer (reddit.com) teams, and more to solve problems for SMB advertisers end-to-end.
  • Mentor staff engineers and leaders, share industry knowledge, and contribute to the technical growth of the team.

Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer. A technical leader who has led complex, cross-departmental projects that impact critical business metrics
  • 4+ years of experience working across B2B Growth product engineering teams. Familiarity with experimentation, data-informed decision making, hypothesis design, and customer empathy
  • Able to lead a full stack development team
  • A proven track record of delivering high impact products
  • Capable of designing, implementing, testing, and launching complex product and infrastructure changes across the entire stack
  • Strong ability to deliver through others as well as doing hands-on work
  • An adept communicator and has experience working with many different teams and stakeholders, and updating executives

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

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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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