Senior Frontend Engineer - Ads Formats

reddit; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Reddit seeks a skilled frontend engineer to join the New Ad Formats team, focusing on enhancing user experiences through innovative ad formats. The role involves building responsive applications, collaborating across teams, and contributing to the development phases from design to deployment.

Benefits

Retirement savings plan with matching contributions

Home office workspace benefits

Family planning support

Flexible vacation and Reddit global days off

Qualifications

• At least X years of experience in software development.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering.
• Ability to work full stack when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Building ad experiences and patterns for Reddit’s web pages.
• Collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams.
• Engaging in all development phases including deployment.

Skills

Frontend engineering

Software development

Responsive design

Data-intensive applications

Collaborative work

Tools

Typescript

Go

Python

Job description

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, hosting some of the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, users submit, vote, and comment on topics they care about. With thousands of active communities and millions of daily visitors, Reddit is one of the largest sources of information online. For more information, visit our website.

Reddit attracts users seeking content and deep discussions on topics of interest. We offer unique, high-engagement conversations and foster communities that come together to achieve fun, exciting, and quirky things. Over recent years, we have expanded our advertising offerings and now support multiple ad formats, continuously innovating in this space. Our ads team builds new products to establish product-market fit and scale these solutions, including industry-specific and newer formats gaining demand in the ads industry.

The team develops ad formats that deliver strong user experiences aligned with advertisers' marketing goals. Comprising frontend, backend, and mobile engineers, we are seeking a skilled frontend engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the New Ad Formats team.

The Ads Formats Organization aims to enhance our successful ad formats by improving user experiences and meeting advertisers' objectives. Our focus areas include:

• Building new ad formats with engaging functionality for advertisers
• Enabling formats across various surfaces and placements
• Establishing product-market fit
• Iterating and pivoting based on feedback and needs
• Building infrastructure to accelerate development

What We’re Working On :

• Developing new ad formats from prototyping to launch, iterating towards product-market fit.
• Improving the technical foundations for ad formats.

What We Are Looking For :

• Proficiency in frontend engineering with at least X years of experience in software development.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering.
• Willingness to develop data-intensive, responsive, and fault-tolerant apps within smartphone constraints.
• Openness to exploring innovative software approaches.
• Ability to work full stack when necessary, including backend modifications.

Technologies used on the team include :

• Languages: Typescript, Go, Python

Responsibilities :

• Building ad experiences and patterns for Reddit’s web pages to improve ad performance and functionality.
• Collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams to implement innovative solutions.
• Engaging in all development phases: design, development, QA, experimentation, analysis, and deployment.

Benefits :

• Retirement savings plan with matching contributions
• Home office workspace benefits
• Family planning support
• Flexible vacation and Reddit global days off