Senior Frontend Engineer - Ads Formats

Posted 5 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
191K-267K Annually
3-5 Years Experience
Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
The Senior Frontend Engineer for Ads Formats at Reddit will develop and enhance ad experiences, focusing on building new ad formats, improving user experiences, and collaborating with various teams. Responsibilities include full development cycle engagement and tackling complex challenges in a data-intensive environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Reddit has a strong following of users who come to reddit to find contents and have deep discussions they are interested in. Reddit offers unique and high engagement conversations, we’re the home of conversation on the internet. Our communities achieve fun, exciting, quirky things when they band together. Over the last few years we have been growing multiple ads types and now are a sizable ads player. The ad formats team has multiple ad formats that it supports and new ones it innovates on continuously. This is where this team comes in to build new products from 0 to V1 and V2, establish product market fit and help scale it. This includes both products that are industry unique and products that are newer to reddit but have established demand in the ads industry. 

The team builds and develops ad formats to deliver strong user experiences that align with advertisers marketing goals. Encompassing a blend of frontend, backend, and mobile engineers, we are currently seeking a skilled frontend engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the New Ad Formats team.

The Ads Formats Org is dedicated to enhancing our already successful ad formats by improving user experiences that align with advertisers’ marketing objectives. This team’s focus areas include:

  • Building new formats to support with functionality that delight our advertisers
  • Enable formats on various surfaces/placements
  • Establish product market fit
  • Iterate and pivot based on advertiser needs and product feedback
  • Build infrastructure to iterate and move faster 

What We’re Working On:

  • Developing new ad formats, including end-to-end prototyping, validation, implementation, launch, and iterating to product-market fit.
  • Continually improving the technical foundations used for Ad Formats.

What We Are Looking For:

  • Proficiency in frontend engineering, with at least 3 years of experience in software development
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals.
  • A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps within the constraints of a smartphone environment.
  • An openness to explore innovative approaches to software development.
  • Willingness to work full stack when needed, such as making small to medium sized backend changes.

Technologies used on the team include:

  • Languages: Typescript, Go, Python
  • Frameworks: Lit, Tailwind CSS, Thrift, gRPC
  • Datastores: Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQuery
  • Tools: Vite, Web Test Runner, Argo

Responsibilities:

  • Build Ad experiences and create patterns for Reddit’s official web page that enhance our ads’ performance and functionality.
  • Collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions for complex challenges.
  • Engage in the full development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
  • 401k Matching
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
  • 4+ months paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Volunteer time off

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800$267,100 USD

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].

Top Skills

Go
Python
Typescript
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Reddit is a community of millions of users engaging in the creation of content and the sharing of conversation across tens of thousands of topics. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.

Why Work With Us

At Reddit, you’ll help build something that encourages millions around the world to think more, do more, learn more, feel more– and maybe even laugh more.

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