Staff Frontend Engineer, Ads Creative

Reddit

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$217,000–$303,900 / yr
Posted
50 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $260k
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This role pays more than 83% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $260k versus about $216k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Staff Frontend Engineer, Ads Creative

Staff Frontend Engineer, Ads Creative joins the Ads Creative & Recommendations team to build advertiser-facing workflows that simplify campaign creation and provide actionable recommendations. This role involves leading complex, multi-quarter initiatives to improve frontend architecture, develop shared component patterns, and drive design-system adoption across a large monorepo. The engineer will set technical standards for the platform while collaborating with product, design, and machine learning teams to deliver reliable end-to-end experiences. Key responsibilities include mentoring senior engineers, defining success metrics through experimentation, and managing high-level frontend strategy. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and JavaScript, along with experience in state management, API integration, and performance. The role specifically addresses the technical challenge of transforming sophisticated capabilities into simple, dependable tools for managing advertising creative and campaign workflows.

What you'll do

  • Lead technical strategy and delivery of complex, multi-quarter frontend initiatives across Ads Manager.
  • Establish frontend architecture standards and guide teams toward scalable solutions across products and codebases.
  • Develop shared components and patterns while driving design-system adoption to reduce fragmentation in the monorepo.
  • Partner with product and design teams to resolve ambiguous problems and define technical trade-offs.
  • Use instrumentation, experimentation, and product data to measure success and guide engineering investments.
  • Mentor senior engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and consistent feedback.
  • Coordinate across frontend, backend, and machine learning systems to deliver reliable end-to-end experiences.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience building production web applications with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
  • Proven track record of leading ambiguous, multi-quarter initiatives that deliver measurable product or engineering impact.
  • Expertise in designing scalable frontend architectures within large codebases or monorepos.
  • Experience establishing shared component patterns and driving design system adoption across teams.
  • Strong judgment in state management, API integration, testing, performance, accessibility, security, and reliability.
  • Ability to partner with product and design teams to translate complex requirements into clear user experiences.
  • Proficiency in using instrumentation, experimentation, and product metrics to improve user experience.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and code reviews.

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