Frontend Engineer, Ads Formats

Reddit has a strong following of users who come to Reddit to find content and engage in deep discussions related to their interests. As the home of online conversation, Reddit offers unique and highly engaging interactions. Our communities achieve fun, exciting, and quirky feats when they collaborate. Over the past few years, we have expanded our range of ad types and become a significant player in the advertising space. Our ad formats include image, video, carousel, app, shopping and takeovers, which advertisers rely on. This is where the Scaled Ad Formats team comes in, developing these formats from V0 to V10 and beyond.

The Ads Formats Org is dedicated to enhancing our already successful ad formats by improving user experiences that align with advertisers’ marketing objectives. Our focus areas include:

• Expanding ad inventory

• Enabling ads on new placements

• Optimizing the ad user experience

• Enhancing post-click and pre-click interactions

• Supporting changes in the ads/consumer ecosystem to increase daily active users (DAU)

• Implementing infrastructure enhancements for ad products.

Our team designs and develops ad formats to provide robust 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 Scaled Ad Formats team.

What We’re Working On:

• Developing new features for ad formats, including end-to-end prototyping, validation, implementation, launch, and ongoing iteration.

• Improving the performance of existing ad formats through enhancements and optimizations.

• Establishing the technical groundwork for future features and experiences.

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.

Technologies used on the team include:

• Languages: Typescript, Go, Python

• Frameworks: React, Thrift, gRPC, Baseplate, Kafka

• Datastores: Postgres, Cassandra, Druid, Redis, BigQuery

• Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

Responsibilities:

• Build Ad experiences and create patterns for Reddit’s official web page that enhance our ads’ pre-click and post-click interactions 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 Healthcare Benefits

• 401k Matching

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• Personal & Professional development funds

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days

• 4+ months paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off