Senior Frontend Engineer - Ads Formats

Posted 13 Days Ago
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Toronto, ON
3-5 Years Experience
Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
Join Reddit's Ads Formats team to build and develop ad formats that align with advertisers' marketing goals. As a skilled frontend engineer, you will work on creating new ad formats, improving technical foundations, and ensuring strong user experiences. Proficiency in frontend engineering and a willingness to work full stack when needed are required for this role.
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: React, Thrift, gRPC
  • Datastores: Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQuery
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

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 Health benefits
  • Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

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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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