Senior Software Engineer (Home Experience)

• The Home 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 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

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- Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity
• Fluency working with product metrics, designing and analyzing experiments with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; e.g. Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, C#
• 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
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to breakdown and prioritize tasks for yourself and others while keeping projects on schedule
• Experience working with ML engineering teams and integrating ML solutions is a plus
• 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
• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing applications