Staff Frontend Engineer, Reddit

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including deep experience building production web applications with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript
• A track record of leading ambiguous, multi-quarter initiatives across teams and delivering measurable product or engineering impact
• Expertise designing scalable frontend architectures in large codebases or monorepos
• Experience establishing shared component patterns, contributing to design systems, and driving adoption across teams
• Strong judgment in frontend architecture, state management, API integration, testing, performance, accessibility, security, and reliability
• Experience partnering closely with product and design to shape strategy and turn complex requirements into clear user experiences
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build alignment and influence decisions across teams and disciplines
• Experience using instrumentation, experimentation, and product metrics to understand and improve user experiences
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and technical leadership
• Comfort using agentic coding tools such as Codex, Cursor, or Claude in day-to-day software development

Desirable

• The Ads Creative & Recommendations team makes it easier for advertisers to maximize performance on Reddit through relevant creative and actionable recommendations
• We own the advertiser-facing workflows where creative, recommendations, and campaign creation come together
• Our goal is to reduce blank-canvas work and help advertisers move from an idea to an effective campaign with less friction. We build unified experiences that give advertisers useful context, evidence-backed guidance, and the ability to refine the system’s suggestions
• We’re looking for a staff frontend engineer with deep React and TypeScript expertise to set technical direction for the next generation of Reddit’s advertiser tools
• You’ll lead ambiguous, multi-quarter initiatives that span teams and deliver measurable product and engineering impact. You’ll bring teams together around a clear strategy and turn sophisticated capabilities into workflows that feel simple and dependable
• You’ll guide the evolution of our frontend platform, setting strategy and influencing teams toward scalable architecture, shared component patterns, and consistent design-system practices across a large monorepo
• Lead the technical strategy and delivery of complex, multi-quarter frontend initiatives across Ads Manager
• Set frontend architecture standards and guide teams toward solutions that scale across products and codebases
• Develop shared components and patterns, drive design-system adoption, and reduce fragmentation across a large monorepo
• Set a high bar for frontend quality across both the user experience and the systems behind it
• Partner with product and design from the earliest stages to shape direction, clarify ambiguous problems, and make sound tradeoffs
• Build alignment across teams and influence technical decisions beyond the immediate organization
• Define success measures, instrument experiences, and use experiments and product data to guide investment and iteration
• Mentor senior engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and thoughtful feedback
• Collaborate across frontend, backend, data, and machine learning systems to deliver reliable end-to-end experiences
• Technologies used on the team :
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• React
• Modern frontend testing, experimentation, and observability tools