Frontend Engineer, Ads

Reddit

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$164,200–$229,900 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Similar $212k
This role $197k
$153k most similar roles pay here $266k

This role pays less than 55% of similar roles. Most pay $169,762–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $197k versus about $212k for comparable roles.

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Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.

Reddit currently has 78 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Frontend Engineer, Ads

Frontend Engineer, Ads joins the Brand Ad Formats team to develop high-visibility, awareness-driven ad solutions that maximize reach and brand impact for advertisers. This role involves building interactive experiences and patterns for the web app while collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges throughout the full development cycle, including design, QA, and deployment. The engineer will work on sophisticated features like AI-driven ads incorporating user-generated content and video ad formats. Key technologies include TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Go, React, Thrift, and gRPC, alongside tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Codex, and Cursor. Candidates must be skilled in building data-intensive, fault-tolerant applications while utilizing automated testing best practices, code quality patterns, and GenAI tools to enhance software engineering productivity within a remote environment.

What you'll do

  • Build ad experiences and create patterns for the web app to improve performance and functionality.
  • Develop interactive ad formats that incorporate User-Generated Content (UGC).
  • Build and scale high-visibility video ads to establish Reddit as a leader in video content.
  • Execute the full development cycle including design, development, QA, experimentation, analysis, and deployment.
  • Create data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant applications for consumer-facing sites.
  • Implement automated testing best practices and maintain high standards for code quality and design patterns.
  • Perform insightful code reviews to ensure technical excellence across the engineering team.
  • Leverage GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience in Web Engineering.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript.
  • Experience with automated testing best practices, code quality, design patterns, and observability.
  • Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity.
  • Excellent communication skills for collaborating in a remote environment and discussing complex topics with diverse audiences.
  • Experience working on ad tech (preferred).
  • Experience working on consumer-facing sites with high production value at scale (preferred).

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