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