Frontend Engineer, Ads Growth

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Team Description

The Advertiser Growth Activation team’s mission is to onboard SMBs successfully onto the Reddit Ads platform and activate their spend. We focus on activating SMBs within high-intent funnels that support a seamless graduation into our broader ecosystem. Whether an advertiser onboards and activates from a channel like Shopify or from Reddit’s native mobile applications, we want their experience to be seamless and intuitive, setting them up for long term success on the platform.

Role Description

The Ads Growth Activation team is seeking a front-end Engineer with a strong product mindset and a high bar for execution to join our fast-paced engineering group.

Reporting to the Advertiser Growth Activation Engineering Manager, you will build user-facing products, workflows, and experimentation surfaces that help new and existing advertisers successfully adopt and unlock value from our platform.

As a mid-level Frontend Engineer, you will take ownership of problems and deliver high-quality work with consistent velocity. You are comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve, experiments move quickly, and strong communication is critical.

You will work closely with your team’s Tech Lead, Product Manager, Designer, and partner engineers to break down ambiguous problems into shippable milestones, surface risks and blockers early, and deliver features that improve advertiser activation and long-term success on the platform

Responsibilities

• Build performant, mobile-optimized ad growth experiences on ads.reddit.com and on partner platforms such as Shopify and WooCommerce
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering partners to turn business goals and product requirements into clear technical plans and high-quality user experiences
• Break down ambiguous problems into iterative, shippable milestones and make steady progress across multiple priorities
• Communicate status, tradeoffs, risks, and blockers clearly and early, and ask for help when needed to keep work moving
• Engage in the full development cycle: design, develop, test, experiment, analyze, and deploy
• Contribute to a strong team culture through thoughtful code reviews, feedback, and day-to-day collaboration
• Ramp quickly on the team’s domain, systems, and development workflows so you can make meaningful contributions early

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in frontend engineering
• Strong proficiency in Typescript and Javascript
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including building reliable, maintainable, and well-structured systems
• Experience building responsive, data-intensive web applications with strong performance and usability
• Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in a new codebase, product area, or business domain
• Track record of delivering consistent output and following through on commitments in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to surface blockers early, share progress clearly, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners
• Good judgment about when to act independently and when to escalate or seek support
• Comfort working in a distributed team environment with cross-functional stakeholders
• Openness to feedback and a willingness to learn, adapt, and improve quickly

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on ad tech
• Experience working on premier consumer facing sites (high production value at scale)
• Experience with experimentation infrastructure (A/B testing frameworks) and data-driven product development

Technologies used on the team include

• Languages: Typescript, Go
• Frameworks: React, Thrift, gRPC
• Datastores: Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQuery
• Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

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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/.

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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