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Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

United States only

Employer listed it 9 days ago · Added 2 days ago

First listed 9 days ago and still open.

Salary

$191k to $267k per year

Location

United States only

Timezone

US East

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Senior

Category

Software

Stated by the employer in the job description

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

  • Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - United States"
  • Job description states: "U.S.-based"

What Nomaders makes of it

  • Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only

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About the role

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.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.

Role Description:

This is a Generalist Senior Backend Engineer position within the Ads Organization. Ads is the fuel that powers Reddit’s mission. As a backend engineer on the team, candidates might work on:

Microservices and APIs that power our advertiser-facing product, ads.reddit.com

Distributed systems that ensure the right ad gets shown to the right user at the right time

Backends that power interactive user experiences on our ads like Polls and Games

Real time, data intensive systems that measure the performance of our ad campaigns

Infrastructure that supports all of the above

Technologies used on the team include:

Languages: Go, Python, Scala

Frameworks: Spark, Thrift, Baseplate, Kafka

Datastores: Postgres, BigQuery, Redis, Druid

Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

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.

Required Qualifications:

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.

Bonus Points:

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.
  • ·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 with Employer Match
  • ·Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
  • ·Family Planning Support
  • ·Gender-Affirming Care

How to apply

  1. 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
  2. 2Tailor your CV to the role at Reddit, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
  3. 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 3d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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