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Senior Frontend Engineer, Ads Formats

Reddit · Remote - United States · Remote

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About Reddit

Backed by 500 Global.

About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience building production web applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, and/or React
  • Comfort using Codex, Cursor, Claude, or comparable agentic coding tools in day-to-day software development
  • A track record of independently delivering complex frontend projects from technical design through launch and iteration
  • Sound judgment in frontend architecture, state management, component design, testing, and API integration
  • Experience building polished user interfaces with close attention to usability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability
  • Ability to work effectively through ambiguous product and technical problems
More about this role

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 .

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...

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