Reddit

Senior Frontend Engineer, Ads Formats

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3 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
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Base Salary

$191k - $267k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop resilient frontend approaches using JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, the DOM, and browser networking to reduce ad disruptions.
  • Integrate solutions into shared ad rendering infrastructure, frontend architecture, and build systems with Ads and Web Platform teams.
  • Design controlled experiments and phased rollouts while protecting site performance, accessibility, and user experience.
  • Build instrumentation and monitoring to measure mitigation effectiveness, detect regressions, and guide iteration.
  • Implement ad rendering, event collection, click handling, and browser extensions across multiple ad formats.
  • Improve web advertising reliability, performance, measurement, and foundational infrastructure.
  • Raise engineering quality through technical design, testing, code reviews, documentation, and mentorship.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building production web applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, and/or React.
  • Experience using Codex, Cursor, Claude, or comparable agentic coding tools in day-to-day software development.
  • Track record of independently delivering complex frontend projects from technical design through launch and iteration.
  • Strong frontend architecture, state management, component design, testing, and API integration skills.
  • Experience building polished user interfaces with attention to usability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguous product and technical problems and collaborate across engineering, product, design, and data disciplines.
  • Experience with instrumentation, experimentation, or product metrics to improve user experiences.
  • Experience with code reviews, documentation, and technical mentorship.
  • Bonus: experience working with video ads, display ads, or other advertising formats.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
  • 401(k) match.
  • Family planning support and gender-affirming care.
  • Mental health and coaching benefits.
  • Flexible vacation, Reddit Global Days Off, paid parental leave, and paid volunteer time off.
  • Remote role, as indicated by the #li-remote designation.
  • Base salary range of $190,800-$267,100 USD; the role may also include equity and, depending on the position, commission.

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About Reddit

5,001-10,000 employees

Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.

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