Frontend Engineer, Ads

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 164,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Commission eligibility

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a frontend engineer for the Brand Ad Formats team to build ad experiences and patterns in Reddit’s web app. You will collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams, and participate in the full development cycle from design to deployment.

The role emphasizes performance, data-driven decisions, and strong communication in a fully remote-capable environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Web Engineering experience.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Experience building data-intensive, responsive apps.
• Experience with automated testing, code quality, and design patterns.
• Strong communication skills for a fully remote collaboration.
• Experience leveraging GenAI to boost productivity.

Responsibilities

• Build ad experiences and patterns for Reddit’s web app.
• Collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams.
• Lead design, development, QA, experiments, and deployment cycles.

Skills

Typescript

Javascript

Data-intensive apps

Fault-tolerant apps

Automated testing

Code reviews

GenAI tools

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Codex

Cursor

Job description

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Team Description

The Brand Ad Formats team drives the development of ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact. They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users. By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes. The team is building fully customizable interactive formats and AI-driven ads that incorporate User-Generated Content (UGC). Moving forward, we will be doubling down on Video Ads, with the goal of turning Reddit into an industry leader and a ‘must buy’ for advertisers to promote video content.

Role Description

The Brand Ad Formats team is seeking a skilled Frontend engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the team.

Responsibilities

• Build Ad experiences and create patterns for Reddit’s web 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

• 3+ years of experience in Web Engineering
• Proficient in Typescript and Javascript
• A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps
• Experience with automated testing best practices, code quality / design patterns, observability, etc.
• Skilled at performing insightful code reviews, and receiving feedback themself
• Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity
• Excellent communication skills: able to collaborate with teams in a fully remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on ad tech
• Experience working on consumer facing sites (high production value at scale)

Technologies used on the team include

• Languages: Typescript, HTML, CSS, Go
• Frameworks: React, Thrift, gRPC
• Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Codex, Cursor

Pay 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/.

• medical
• dental
• vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• generous time off for vacation
• parental leave

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary 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 salary range for this position is:

$164,200 — $229,900 USD

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