Senior Frontend Engineer - Ads Formats

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Reddit has a strong following of users who come to reddit to find contents 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. This is where this team comes in to build new products from to V and V, establish product market fit and help scale it. This includes both products that are industry unique and products that are newer to reddit but have established demand in the ads industry.

The team builds and develops ad formats to deliver strong 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 New Ad Formats team.

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

Building new formats to support with functionality that delight our advertisers

Enable formats on various surfaces/placements

Establish product market fit

Iterate and pivot based on advertiser needs and product feedback

Build infrastructure to iterate and move faster

What We’re Working On:

Developing new ad formats, including end-to-end prototyping, validation, implementation, launch, and iterating to product-market fit.

Continually improving the technical foundations used for Ad Formats.

What We Are Looking For:

Proficiency in frontend engineering, with at least 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.

Willingness to work full stack when needed, such as making small to medium sized backend changes.

Technologies used on the team include:

Languages:

Typescript, Go, Python

Frameworks:
React, Thrift, gRPC

Datastores:
Postgres, Dynamo

DB, Big Query

Tools:
Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

Responsibilities:

Build Ad experiences and create patterns for Reddit’s official web page 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.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Health benefits

Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions

Workspace benefits for your home office

Personal & Professional development funds

Family Planning Support

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

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