Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reddit is a community-driven platform built around shared interests, passion, and trust. The Senior Software Engineer will build and deliver user-facing products and features for Reddit’s high-traffic Home Experience feeds, owning major projects across design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch while contributing to backend service architecture, observability, and roadmap planning.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to build novel products and features that our users will love
- Work alongside a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise
- Own the full development cycle for major projects: design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be writing and reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks, and ensuring successful delivery of these key projects
- You will be a key driver in the planning, development, and implementation across Reddit’s backend service architecture in service of our native mobile and web clients as part of a full stack team
- Enable a culture of metrics led execution, with a focus on operational excellence and system observability
- Partner with leadership and cross-functional partners to develop the right roadmap that best achieves our product and engineering goals
Skills
- 6+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing applications
- Fluency working with product metrics, designing and analyzing experiments with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; e.g. Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, C#
- Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to breakdown and prioritize tasks for yourself and others while keeping projects on schedule
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- Entrepreneurial spirit. You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity
- Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate with teams in a fully remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working with ML engineering teams and integrating ML solutions is a plus
- Strong focus on user experience and usability. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people think and how they interact with software. Experience with social is a huge plus
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- Equity in the form of restricted stock units
- Depending on the position offered, eligibility to receive a commission
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- Generous time off for vacation and parental leave
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