Frontend Engineer, Ads Growth
About the role
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