Frontend Engineer, Ads

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust, with 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.

The Brand Ad Formats team drives development of ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact, focusing on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions. The team is building fully customizable interactive formats and AI-driven ads incorporating User-Generated Content (UGC), and is doubling down on Video Ads.

We are seeking a skilled Frontend engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the team.

• Build Ad experiences and create patterns for Reddit’s web app 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.

• 3+ years of experience in Web Engineering
• Proficient in Typescript and Javascript
• A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps
• Experience with automated testing best practices, code quality / design patterns, observability, etc.
• Skilled at performing insightful code reviews, and receiving feedback themself
• Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity
• Excellent communication skills: able to collaborate with teams in a fully remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

• Experience working on ad tech
• Experience working on consumer facing sites (high production value at scale)

Languages: Typescript, HTML, CSS, Go; Frameworks: React, Thrift, gRPC; Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Codex, Cursor

Base salary range: $164,200—$229,900 USD. Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units, and possibly commission. Reddit offers medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.