Frontend Engineer, Ads

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit . Team Description 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.

Role Description 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.

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

Preferred Qualifications: Experience working on ad tech Experience working on consumer facing sites (high production value at scale) Technologies used on the team include:

Languages: Typescript, HTML, CSS, Go

Frameworks: React, Thrift, gRPC

Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Codex, Cursor

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit .

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$164,200—$229,900 USD

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