Senior Frontend Engineer, Home Experience

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid VolunteerTime

Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit's Feeds Experience team is hiring a senior frontend engineer to own core web features for the Feed pages across Reddit apps and site. You will collaborate with product, design, and backend engineers to ship user‑centric experiences with fast, scalable UI.

You should have 6+ years in frontend development (JavaScript/TypeScript) and strong React/CSS skills, plus GraphQL/REST familiarity. This role supports a fully remote US work setup and offers a substantial base salary with equity and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience in frontend
• Experience with one or more frontend web frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, etc.) and CSS
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Strong focus on user experience and usability
• Excellent communication skills, especially in a fully remote environment
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, and API design is a plus

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering to build new features for the Feed pages
• Own the full development cycle for major frontend projects from design to launch
• Write and review code and design docs, and help mentor engineers
• Contribute to web architecture planning and drive observability and performance improvements

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

CSS

Frontend frameworks

API design (GraphQL/REST)

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

GraphQL

REST

HTTP

Thrift basics

Job description

the company 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, the company users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, the company is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Feeds Experience team is responsible for one of the highest traffic pages on the platform: the Feed pages on the the company apps and website. Feeds are both a destination and entrypoint for almost all the company journeys, and we know a smooth, intuitive, and delightful experience is critical to the company’s success and appeal. You’ll be working with the immense scale of hundreds of millions of users to help them explore the company and provide them with excellent feeds on the company.

What You’ll Do:

• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to build novel products and features that our users will love.

• Work alongside 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.

• Own the full development cycle for major projects: design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be writing and reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks, and ensuring successful delivery of these key projects.

• You will be a key driver in the planning, development, and implementation of critical projects across the company’s web architecture, working alongside backend and other client engineers.

• Enable a culture of metrics led execution, with a focus on operational excellence and system observability.

• Partner with leadership and cross-functional partners to develop the right roadmap that best achieves our product and engineering goals.

Who You Might Be:

• 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front end focused programming languages; Javascript, Typescript, ES6

• Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS.

• Strong organizational skills, the ability to breakdown and prioritize tasks for yourself and others while keeping projects on schedule.

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

• Strong focus on user experience and usability. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people think and how they interact with software. Experience with social is a huge plus.

• 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.

• Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.

• Understanding of large scale web applications, considerations and techniques to accommodate high RPS, complex pages is a major plus.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k with Employer Match

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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, the company 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 salary 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 salary range for this position is:

$190,800—$267,100 USD

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