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Senior Frontend Engineer, Ads Formats

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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 Ad Formats team builds and evolves Reddit’s ad experiences across all platforms and all format types, including image, video, carousel, shopping, etc. 

 

The team defines how those ads behave across placements like feed, conversation, search, making sure each format works in the right surfaces and contexts across Reddit. The team supports the end-to-end user ad experience, including media rendering, click behavior, special click variants like lead gen, and the UI details that make promoted content feel native to Reddit while optimizing for advertiser's goals.

 

Within this area, the Ad Formats Foundation team owns the common infrastructure behind all ad formats, with a mission to improve developer efficiency, system reliability, and long-term scalability across the stack. We are responsible for modernizing core formats infrastructure, standardized format data, drive cross-platform consistency and compliance for ad formats to reduce bugs and allow the formats team to iterate quickly and improve the developer velocity. 

 

Our goal is to continuously improve ad formats infrastructure, with a focus on increasing developer efficiency and system reliability through tech stack modernization, scalability investments, and compliance work.

Role Description

We’re looking for a senior frontend engineer with deep JavaScript, TypeScript, and browser platform expertise to help strengthen Reddit’s advertising experiences across desktop and mobile web. You will partner with product and design to work through ambiguous requirements and make sound product and engineering tradeoffs.

 

You’ll work closely with Ads and Web Platform engineers to solve complex frontend challenges while maintaining site performance, accessibility, and a dependable user experience. This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys browser-level problem solving, navigating ambiguity, and building maintainable systems with measurable impact.

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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 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:
$190,800—$267,100 USD

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