Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Safety

Far Coder; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Employer 401k match

Global benefits programs

Family planning support

Gender-affirming care

Mental health & coaching

Flexible vacation & volunteer time off

Parental leave

Pay transparency

Job summary

Reddit is hiring a remote Senior Backend Engineer, Safety to join our team in a fully remote capacity within the United States. You will contribute to building scalable APIs and services using GraphQL, Python, Rust, Ruby, Go, and REST, collaborating across product and design with a focus on safety features.

As a senior engineer, you will lead technical design, review code, mentor teammates, and drive best practices while operating in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with

Qualifications

• 5-8 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.
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.
• Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment and the ability to 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.
• Lead 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.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

Ruby

GraphQL

REST

HTTP

gRPC

Cross-functional collaboration

Organizational skills

Entrepreneurial mindset

Remote collaboration

Education

BS in Computer Science

Job description

Reddit is hiring a remote Senior Backend Engineer, Safety to join our team in a fully remote capacity within the United States. You will contribute to building scalable APIs and services using GraphQL, Python, Rust, Ruby, Go, and REST, collaborating across product and design with a focus on safety features.

As a senior engineer, you will lead technical design, review code, mentor teammates, and drive best practices while operating in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with