Senior Frontend Engineer (Home Experience)

• The Feeds Experience team is responsible for one of the highest traffic pages on the platform: the Feed pages on the Reddit apps and website
• Feeds are both a destination and entrypoint for almost all Reddit journeys, and we know a smooth, intuitive, and delightful experience is critical to Reddit’s success and appeal
• You’ll be working with the immense scale of hundreds of millions of users to help them explore Reddit and provide them with excellent feeds on Reddit
• 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 of critical projects across Reddit’s web architecture, working alongside backend and other client engineers
• 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

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- 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front end focused programming languages; Javascript, Typescript, ES6
• Understanding of large scale web applications, considerations and techniques to accommodate high RPS, complex pages is a major plus
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus
• 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
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to breakdown and prioritize tasks for yourself and others while keeping projects on schedule
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• 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
• Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS
• Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences