The setting
runs a discussion platform where people post, comment and vote in topic communities. is its advertising software, which lets brands, retailers and agencies deliver, target and measure ads on the platform.
App CAPI changes move quickly while event contracts fail in paths reviewers cannot see.
Fast review protects delivery momentum, while explicit contract and test evidence protects conversion-signal trust.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My client asked why purchases vanished after a release, and I had no answer beyond waiting for the next export.”
Akosua Darko · Digital Advertising Manager · a character in this brief
Runs app campaigns and uses conversion reporting to decide whether to keep automated campaign budgets active.
What is at stake
App CAPI releases can drop or duplicate advertiser conversion events after review. You must decide whether AI marks every touched contract or only risks supported by executable tests.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- review speed vs contract visibility
- shared platform patterns vs App CAPI specificity
- flag completeness vs reviewer attention
- service context vs advertiser data isolation
Why Reddit
Reddit Ads depends on reliable App CAPI conversion signals for advertiser measurement and downstream optimization.
Written with these in mind
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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.
The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.
Job postings it was written from
Public descriptions of the work at Reddit. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.
- Senior Software Engineer - Messaging (opens in a new tab)
- Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering (opens in a new tab)
- Software Engineer, Ad Signals (opens in a new tab)
- Build scalable ingestion and processing services with clear contracts, validation, deduplication, failure recovery, and data lineage.
- Advertisers depend on conversion signals to understand campaign performance and guide investment.
- Engineering Manager, Knowledge Graph Platform (opens in a new tab)
- Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Ads Experience (opens in a new tab)
- Product Execution: Design and ship advertiser-facing AI features and platform (campaign assistants, creative generation, audience discovery, performance analytics, optimization recommendations) end-to-end, from prototype to GA.
- The Agentic Ads Experience team is building the next generation of advertiser-facing interfaces: campaign assistants, creative and ad copy generation, one-click campaign creation, audience discovery, conversational analytics, and optimization recommendations.
Reporting read before this brief was written
The pieces closest to the situation in this brief.
On September 3, 2026, Reddit made Max campaigns available to all advertisers, with API support, a Smartly integration and asset groups, citing early-test results of 17% lower CPA and over 27% more conversions.
Performance unlocked: Reddit Max campaigns are now available to all advertisers (opens in a new tab) · redditinc.com · Sep 3, 2026
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.
Where similar work appears
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Each is set around Reddit’s Reddit Ads, written for a different role. They’re separate briefs, not the same scenario.
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