Reddit

Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Home Experience

Reddit$190K — $267K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software development experience in front-end languages; JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6
  • Familiar with front-end frameworks like LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular; CSS experience required
  • Strong organizational skills for prioritizing tasks and managing projects
  • BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • User experience advocate with a knack for understanding user interaction; social media experience is a plus
  • Entrepreneurial spirit; self-directed and innovative in fast-paced settings
  • Excellent communication skills in a remote working environment
  • Experience with GraphQL, REST, and API design is a plus
  • Knowledge of large-scale web applications and high RPS considerations is advantageous

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to create engaging products and features
  • Contribute to improving developer workflows and mentor team engineers
  • Manage end-to-end development of major projects, from design to launch
  • Drive planning and implementation of important projects in Reddit's web architecture
  • Promote a data-driven culture with a focus on operational efficiency and observability
  • Work with leadership to develop strategic roadmaps aligned with product goals

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare and income replacement programs
  • 401k plan with employer match
  • Global benefits that cater to individual lifestyles, including remote workspace support
  • Family planning assistance
  • Gender-affirming care support
  • Mental health services and coaching
  • Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off
  • Generous parental leave policy
Full Job Description
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 entry point 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.

What You'll Do:
  • 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.

Who You Might Be:
  • 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front end focused programming languages; Javascript, Typescript, ES6
  • Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.
  • Understanding of large scale web applications, considerations and techniques to accommodate high RPS, complex pages is a major 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

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:

$190,800-$267,100 USD

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About Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits", which cover topics such as news, politics, religion, science, movies, video games, music, books, sports, fitness, cooking, pets, and image-sharing. Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Although there are strict rules prohibiting harassment, it still occurs, and Reddit administrators moderate the communities and close or restrict them on occasion. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not considered Reddit employees. As of September 2021, Reddit ranks as the 19th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the U.S., according to Alexa Internet. About 42–49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9–8.2% and Canada at 5.2–7.8%. Twenty-two percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 years, and 14 percent of U.S. adults aged 30 to 49 years, regularly use Reddit. Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, with Aaron Swartz, in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications. In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto. Their investment valued the company at $500 million then. In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder. In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion. In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion.
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