Backend Engineer, Reddit Pro for Publishers

Reddit, Inc.; British Columbia; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media platform seeks a Backend Engineer to join the Reddit Pro team in British Columbia. This remote role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product strategy and develop novel products. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of coding experience, a BS degree in Computer Science, and expertise in object-oriented programming languages. The position offers flexible vacation, mental health benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Registered Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions

Income Replacement Programs

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

Qualifications

• 3+ years of coding experience in a production setting.
• 2+ years industry experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with product and design teams.
• Contribute to technical design, development, test, and launch.
• Mentor engineers to grow their technical expertise.

Skills

object-oriented programming

clean code

GraphQL

REST

leadership

communication

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or similar field

Tools

Golang

Python

Java

Job description

Backend Engineer, Reddit Pro for Publishers

Remote - British Columbia, Canada

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Reddit Pro team’s mission is to empower brands, publishers, organizations and professionals to create engaging content for our communities while growing their presence on Reddit through Reddit Pro. Reddit Pro is an ongoing initiative that offers advanced tooling for businesses that unlocks the power of Reddit’s 100k active communities & conversations – where opinions are formed and decisions are made. Longer term, businesses will also be able to build on this deep relationship with their Reddit communities by leveraging complementary monetized solutions from Reddit.

This is a high impact role where you will be involved in technical & product strategy and have a chance to get in on the ground floor of a new product space.

What You’ll Do:

• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner 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.
• 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.
• Contribute to strategic planning and decision‑making processes for backend development.

Who You Might Be:

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code.
• 2+ years of industry experience designing large‑scale distributed systems.
• Experience with object‑oriented programming languages such as but not limited to: Golang, Python, or Java
• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with a track record of mentoring and developing junior engineers.
• 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 and even failure.

Registered Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions

Income Replacement Programs

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

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, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.