Staff Android Engineer, Brand Ad Formats

📋 Description

• • Join Reddit as a Staff Android Engineer, a pivotal role focused on shaping the future of brand advertising on the platform. You will be instrumental in transforming Reddit's Video Ads into an industry-leading offering and pioneering new, unique ad formats for Android. This position is crucial for enhancing advertiser reach, brand impact, and creating memorable user experiences through high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions. By developing fully customizable interactive formats and AI-driven ads that integrate User-Generated Content, you will directly contribute to major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes, with a specific emphasis on establishing Reddit as a premier destination for video content promotion.
• • As the Video Ads Tech Lead, you will collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to architect a strategic roadmap aimed at elevating Video Ads to an industry-leading standard. You will be responsible for the technical design and execution of projects that bring this vision to life, ensuring high performance, quality, and scalability. Your day-to-day will involve providing technical guidance to the team building video ads and other unique ad formats for millions of users. This includes establishing and enforcing Android best practices, conducting thorough design reviews, and driving the entire development lifecycle. You will manage projects from initial discovery and prototyping through rigorous testing, data-driven experimentation, and final deployment. Furthermore, you will be tasked with raising the technical bar across the organization by mentoring senior engineers in ad formats, establishing best practices for design, testing, and operational excellence, and championing customer needs. Your role will involve understanding and advocating for our users, ensuring that the ad experiences we build are both effective for advertisers and respectful of the Reddit community.
• • The Brand Ad Formats team at Reddit is at the forefront of developing innovative advertising solutions that maximize advertiser reach and brand impact. They specialize in high-visibility, awareness-driven formats designed to create engaging and memorable experiences for Reddit users. By guaranteeing placements and fostering interactive ad engagements, the team supports significant brand campaigns and drives measurable results for advertisers. Their current focus includes building highly customizable interactive formats and AI-driven advertisements that leverage User-Generated Content. A significant upcoming initiative is the expansion into Video Ads, with the ambitious goal of positioning Reddit as an industry leader and a mandatory platform for advertisers promoting video content. This team thrives on innovation, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in ad technology to create value for both users and advertisers.
• • In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to lead the technical strategy for a critical and rapidly growing area of Reddit's advertising business. You will gain deep expertise in ad tech, mobile development, and the intricacies of building scalable, high-performance client-side systems. You will hone your leadership skills by mentoring other engineers and influencing technical direction across multiple teams. By driving the development of cutting-edge ad formats, including AI-driven solutions and advanced video advertising, you will contribute to shaping the future of advertising on one of the internet's largest platforms. This position offers a chance to make a significant impact, grow your career in a fast-paced environment, and work on challenging problems that require both technical excellence and a strong product sensibility. You will also develop a strong product mindset, focusing on UI polish, performance, and user experience in a data-intensive environment.