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Senior iOS Software Engineer, Media Foundation

New York City, NY

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 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Media Foundation’s mission is simple: Delivering seamless, high-performance media experiences that meet and exceed industry standards, ensuring unparalleled engagement across all platforms at Reddit. Media is the most engaging medium on Reddit, whether it’s for posts, comments, or ads. This is a pivotal role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit's media experience across all devices. We are seeking a stellar engineer with a deep understanding of scalable media solutions who can drive innovation, deliver top-tier video experiences to our users, and guide other teams in seamlessly integrating with our video API. This role not only involves building robust media capabilities but also contributing to the growth and strength of our media engineering team as Reddit continues to scale.

This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

What You’ll Do:

  • Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
  • Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
  • Work with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
  • Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

What We Are Looking For:

  • At least 3+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift.
  • Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Java, Python, Go, Rust, C++.
  • Additional knowledge around GraphQL, REST, HTTP basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs is a plus.
  • Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks …
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Job Profile

Regions

North America

Countries

United States

Restrictions

Fully remote Fully remote environment

Benefits/Perks

4+ months paid Parental Leave Commission Comprehensive healthcare Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits Dental Development funds Equity Equity in the form of restricted stock units Family Planning Family Planning Support Flexible Vacation Fully remote Generous time off Global Wellness Global Wellness Days Healthcare Healthcare Benefits High impact Medical Medical, dental, and vision insurance Paid parental leave Paid Volunteer time off Parental leave Pay Transparency Personal & professional development Personal & Professional development funds Professional development funds Reddit Global Wellness Reddit Global Wellness Days Restricted Stock Units Vision Insurance Volunteer time off Wellness Days Wide range of benefits Workspace Workspace benefits Workspace benefits for your home office

Tasks
  • Collaborate with product and design
  • Continuously learn and improve
  • Experimentation
  • Improve developer workflows
  • Mentor engineers
  • Review code and design docs
  • Work cross-functionally
Skills

Ads Analysis API APIs Architecture BigQuery C++ Communication Computer Science Design Developer workflows Development cycle Engineering Experimentation Frameworks Go GraphQL HLS HTTP IOS Java Management Media Mpeg-dash Operations Organizational Performance Product Strategy Python Quality REST Rust Software Development SQL Swift Technical Design

Experience

3 years

Education

B.S. BS Degree in Computer Science Computer Science Degree in Computer Science Engineering Equivalent practical experience Technical field Technical Field of Study

Timezones

America/Anchorage America/Chicago America/Denver America/Los_Angeles America/New_York Pacific/Honolulu UTC-10 UTC-5 UTC-6 UTC-7 UTC-8 UTC-9