Frontend Engineer, Ads Growth

Details

Reddit is a community of communities... Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

Team Description

The Advertiser Growth Activation team’s mission is to onboard SMBs successfully onto the Reddit Ads platform and activate their spend. The team focuses on activating SMBs within high-intent funnels that support a seamless graduation into Reddit’s broader ecosystem. Advertisers may onboard and activate from channels like Shopify or from Reddit’s native mobile applications.

Role Description

The Ads Growth Activation team is seeking a Frontend Engineer with a strong product mindset and a high bar for execution to join a fast-paced engineering group. Reporting to the Advertiser Growth Activation Engineering Manager, you will build user-facing products, workflows, and experimentation surfaces that help new and existing advertisers successfully adopt and unlock value from the Reddit Ads platform.

As a mid-level Frontend Engineer, you will take ownership of problems and deliver high-quality work with consistent velocity. You will work closely with the team’s Tech Lead, Product Manager, Designer, and partner engineers to break down ambiguous problems into shippable milestones, surface risks and blockers early, and deliver features that improve advertiser activation and long-term success on the platform.

Responsibilities

• Build performant, mobile-optimized ad growth experiences on ads.reddit.com and on partner platforms such as Shopify and WooCommerce
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering partners to turn business goals and product requirements into clear technical plans and high-quality user experiences
• Break down ambiguous problems into iterative, shippable milestones and make steady progress across multiple priorities
• Communicate status, tradeoffs, risks, and blockers clearly and early, and ask for help when needed to keep work moving
• Engage in the full development cycle: design, develop, test, experiment, analyze, and deploy
• Contribute to a strong team culture through thoughtful code reviews, feedback, and day-to-day collaboration
• Ramp quickly on the team’s domain, systems, and development workflows to make meaningful contributions early

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in frontend engineering
• Strong proficiency in Typescript and Javascript
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including building reliable, maintainable, and well-structured systems
• Experience building responsive, data-intensive web applications with strong performance and usability
• Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in a new codebase, product area, or business domain
• Track record of delivering consistent output and following through on commitments in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to surface blockers early, share progress clearly, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners
• Good judgment about when to act independently and when to escalate or seek support
• Comfort working in a distributed team environment with cross-functional stakeholders
• Openness to feedback and a willingness to learn, adapt, and improve quickly

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on ad tech
• Experience working on premier consumer-facing sites (high production value at scale)
• Experience with experimentation infrastructure (A/B testing frameworks) and data-driven product development

Technologies Used on the Team

• Languages: Typescript, Go
• Frameworks: React, Thrift, gRPC
• Datastores: Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQuery
• Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency

Base salary range for this US-based position: $164,200 - $229,900 USD. The role may also be eligible for equity (RSUs) and, depending on position offered, commission.