Senior Frontend Engineer (Community Builders)

• The Community Builders organization’s mission lies at the core of Reddit’s success as a platform
• Our vision is for Reddit to be the best place to start and grow a community, where everyone can help build a space to connect with others
• Our goal is to bridge the gap from a user’s initial intent to a thriving community
• We focus on creating joyful, low-effort, and modern experiences, ensuring that community building feels energizing rather than taxing
• By offering opinionated, actionable guidance, we empower builders to successfully navigate the journey of their subreddit’s life
• We are seeking a talented Frontend Engineer to join our team. You’ll be a key contributor to building and enhancing our products, developing features from end to end, and ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, and serve community builder needs
• Design, develop, and maintain user facing product features while ensuring performance, security, and scalability of our systems
• Work collaboratively with product managers, designers, data scientists and other engineers to deliver high-quality products
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks
• Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities

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- This role requires a passion for tackling complex challenges in a fast paced nimble environment
• 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front end focused programming languages; Javascript, Typescript, ES6
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and can easily navigate failure
• A passion for learning and adapting to new technologies
• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative or computer science-related field, or equivalent experience
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders
• Ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects, from initial design to deployment and maintenance
• Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus- In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews