Senior Business Engineer - Ads
Senior Business Engineer who designs, prototypes, and delivers Reddit advertising API integrations for strategic partners and advertisers. The role requires 5+ years of software development experience, backend/API expertise, and strong technical consulting and cross-functional communication skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted technical advisor and solutions architect for strategic partners or direct advertisers, guiding integration and adoption of Reddit’s advertising APIs and tools.
- Design and prototype proof-of-concept solutions that accelerate technical enablement and create value for partners or direct advertisers, in Reddit systems or partner codebases.
- Collaborate with partner engineering teams to optimize performance, address integration gaps, and troubleshoot complex issues.
- Lead onboarding, testing, and pre-launch support for successful implementations.
- Represent partner technical needs internally, surfacing feedback and influencing product and platform priorities.
- Support escalations for complex or high-impact integrations and provide actionable direction to resolve blockers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of software development experience owning end-to-end technical projects and coordinating across organizations.
- Hands-on coding expertise in one or more modern programming languages, with a focus on backend or API development.
- Experience contributing directly to external integrations and prototyping in partner environments.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and modern SDK patterns.
- Strong communication skills, including presenting complex technical and business ideas to internal leadership and external stakeholders.
Nice-to-haves
- Deep understanding of the AdTech ecosystem and industry trends and standards.
- Contributions to developer experience through tooling, documentation, or ecosystem standards.
- Experience influencing product roadmaps and supporting release, launch, and product adoption activities with sales, product, and engineering teams.
- Ads industry and ads partnerships experience.
Benefits
- Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
- Family planning support.
- Gender-affirming care.
- Mental health and coaching benefits.
- Comprehensive medical benefits and a health care spending account.
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan with matching contributions.
- Income replacement programs.
- Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
- Generous paid parental leave.
Skills
Python, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, REST APIs, Http, Oauth 2.0, Openid Connect, SDKs, Backend Development, API Development, Adtech
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