Backend Engineer – PDP Experience (Remote, Large-Scale)

EngineersOfAI; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Global benefit programs

Family planning support

Gender-affirming care

Mental health & coaching benefits

Flexible vacation & paid volunteer 시간

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Reddit’s PDP Experience team is seeking an experienced software engineer to help drive product strategy and scalable backend work for one of the platform’s busiest pages—the Comments page. You will shape technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch processes that affect millions of daily interactions.

Collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams, you will build novel features, establish API boundaries, and protect performance and reliability at

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 3+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 3+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby.
• 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.
• 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.
• Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Contribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future. Don’t just come along for the ride.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, and recommend best practices.
• Move fast while balancing quality. We can’t afford extensive processes, and we also can’t afford show-stopping bugs. We need someone who can balance speed with quality while quickly building brand-new products.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

Ruby

GraphQL

REST

HTTP

gRPC

APIs

Distributed systems

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Reddit’s PDP Experience team is seeking an experienced software engineer to help drive product strategy and scalable backend work for one of the platform’s busiest pages—the Comments page. You will shape technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch processes that affect millions of daily interactions.

Collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams, you will build novel features, establish API boundaries, and protect performance and reliability at