Senior Backend Engineer, Vertical Experiences

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Vertical Experiences team is part of our International Growth group. We help achieve our mission by building experiences across various community topics, like Sports or Entertainment to help users to connect better with vast amounts of content on Reddit.  You will work on high-impact initiatives and features across all Reddit product surfaces as a key member of the Vertical Experiences team. Your work will help the next 500 million Redditors find community, belonging, and empowerment on Reddit. 

How You'll Have Impact:

As a Senior Engineer you will play a leading role in creating and scaling features and services to support joyful, engaging and international experiences. You’ll own projects from ideation to production.  You’ll work with a super-talented, cross-functional team to solve hard problems to create experiences that users will love. We are a team of builders that value impact, personal growth, openness, and kindness.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and ship features, experiments and products for millions of users to support our international growth.
• Communicate effectively, within the team and across disciplines. Work closely with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences.
• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and designs.
• Participate with 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.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional backend development experience with multiple parts of the backend stack, from databases to networking to computing infrastructure.
• Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load with hundreds of thousands concurrent users. 
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical teams in a fully remote environment.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation. 
• Experience developing consumer-facing public applications is preferred.

Technologies used on the team include:

• Languages: Go
• Frameworks: Thrift, GRPC, Baseplate, GraphQL
• Datastores: Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, BigQuery, Kafka
• Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Airflow

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

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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 pay 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 pay range for this position is:$190,800—$267,100 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.

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