Senior Frontend Engineer, Ads Formats

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.Team DescriptionReddit has a strong following of users who come to reddit to find content 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.Vision: Increase brand outcomes (i.e. guaranteed reach/share of voice, engaged reach, awareness) through a regular cadence of innovation. Drive market relevance and capture brand budgets.Our team innovates on ad formats that are designed for advertisers whose goal is to increase awareness of their brand. One example of what the team is working on include a revamped version of Takeovers, which allows marketers to get guaranteed inventory on a broad portion of Reddit (eg. for a major movie release). Another example is Reminder Ads, which will allow a user to opt-in to be alerted at a particular time relevant to the ad campaign (eg. when a movie is released). These kind of offerings have been very successful at Reddit, and the team is looking to build on that success.10 team members that include back-end, web, iOS and Android specialists, a L5, 4 L4s and 5 L3s (including the open role)GEO locations of team members: Fairly even split between ET (including PM, and some work in-office in NYC) and PT (including EM).Role DescriptionThe Brand Ad Formats team is seeking a skilled Frontend engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the Brand Ad Formats team.Responsibilities:Build Ad experiences and create patterns for Reddit’s Android 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.Required Qualifications:Expertise in Frontend engineering with at least 4 years of experienceProficient in both Typescript and JavascriptStrong software engineering fundamentalsA willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps within the constraints of a smartphone environmentAn openness to explore innovative approaches to software developmentSkilled at performing insightful code reviews, and receiving feedback themselfBonus points:Experience working on ad techExperience working on premier consumer facing sites (high production value at scale)Technologies used on the team include:Languages: Typescript, GoFrameworks: React, Thrift, gRPCDatastores: Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQueryTools: Kubernetes, Argo, DockerBenefits:Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs401k MatchFamily Planning SupportGender-Affirming CareMental Health & Coaching BenefitsFlexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days OffGenerous paid Parental Leave Paid Volunteer time off#li-remotePay Transparency: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 https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.The base pay range for this position is:$190,800—$267,100 USDReddit 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, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.Originally posted on Himalayas

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