Senior Frontend Engineer, Ad Formats & Platform Tech

San Francisco (CA)

Remote

USD 191,000 - 267,000

Full time

2 days ago

Be an early applicant

Get a reply from this employer

Your resume and cover letter, tailored to exactly what they’re hiring for.

Get past ATS filters

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k Match

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days

Paid Volunteer time off

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a frontend engineer for the Ad Formats Foundation team in the US. You will work with Ads and Web Platform teams to modernize rendering infrastructure, design experiments, and build instrumentation to improve reliability and performance of ad formats.

You will contribute to code quality through reviews, documentation, and mentorship, while driving velocity and usability across video and display ads. Equity and a comprehensive benefits package are offered.

Qualifications

Experience delivering complex frontend projects from design to launch.
Strong frontend architecture, state management, and API integration skills.
Attention to usability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
Ability to work through ambiguous product and technical problems.

Responsibilities

Partner with Ads and Web Platform teams to integrate solutions into shared rendering infrastructure, frontend architecture, and build systems.
Design controlled experiments and phased rollouts to measure effectiveness while protecting site performance, accessibility, and user experience.
Build instrumentation and monitoring to track mitigation effectiveness, detect regressions, and guide iteration.
Contribute to broader foundational improvements in web advertising reliability, performance, and measurement.
Raise engineering quality through thoughtful technical design, testing, code reviews, documentation, and mentorship.