Frontend Engineer (Ads)

• The Brand Ad Formats team drives the development of ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact
• They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users
• By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes
• The team is building fully customizable interactive formats and AI-driven ads that incorporate User-Generated Content (UGC)
• Moving forward, we will be doubling down on Video Ads, with the goal of turning Reddit into an industry leader and a ‘must buy’ for advertisers to promote video content
• The Brand Ad Formats team is 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
• Technologies used on the team include:
• Languages: Typescript, HTML, CSS, Go
• Frameworks: React, Thrift, gRPC
• Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Codex, Cursor

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
• Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
• Personal & professional development funds
• Paid volunteer time off
• Workspace & home office benefits- 3+ years of experience in Web Engineering
• Experience with automated testing best practices, code quality / design patterns, observability, etc
• A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps
• Skilled at performing insightful code reviews, and receiving feedback themself
• Proficient in Typescript and Javascript
• 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)