Senior Frontend Engineer, Reddit
Ads Formats
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in frontend engineering, with at least 3 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
What the job involves
- 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 0 to V1 and V2, 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 100,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment, and sports to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.
The platform attracts over 52M daily users and more than 50B monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddits stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.
Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation,m connection, and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
- Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal & professional development funds
- Paid volunteer time off
- Workspace & home office benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Huffman
(Co-Founder & CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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