Senior Backend Software Engineer, Community Engineering

Reddit, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Reddit as a Senior Backend Software Engineer in the Community Engineering team. This remote role demands expertise in software development and backend system architectures for large-scale platforms. Candidates should possess a collaborative spirit, strong troubleshooting skills, and a passion for building innovative solutions. Enjoy comprehensive benefits and the flexibility of a remote working environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Match

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Global Days Off

Paid Volunteer time off

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience in languages like Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust.
• Experience building backend systems for large-scale consumer platforms.
• Strong organizational and troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally, executing on product and business strategy.
• Contribute to technical design, development, and testing processes.
• Provide feedback on product specifications and coach other developers.

Skills

Software development

Troubleshooting

Organizational skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Senior Backend Software Engineer, Community Engineering

Remote - United States

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 .

Community Engineering’s mission is to empower communities to succeed from inception through scale. This team brings together all aspects of successful communities: discovery and growth, consumption, moderation, stewardship, and governance. 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, 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.

Minimum Candidate Qualifications for this role:

• 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust, etc)
• Proven experience building backend systems for large-scale consumer platforms, or social platforms in a high pace environment. Experience with maintaining and optimizing high traffic distributed systems.
• Strong troubleshooting abilities ranging from business logic concerns to system performance and stability.
• Strong organizational skills. The ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action. 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.

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

401k Match

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

Paid Volunteer time off

This role is remote-friendly and does not require an in office presence - however, there is office space in NY, LA, SF, Toronto and Chicago you may access if you wish.

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

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