Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; 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 & Volunteer Time Off

Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit Consumer Engineering is hiring product engineers to build scalable features across Core Product & Feeds, Community tools, Growth & Engagement, Monetization, and Identity & Security. You will partner with product managers, designers, data scientists, ML engineers, and frontend engineers to ship high-impact features that scale to hundreds of millions of users.

You’ll own end-to-end delivery, design API contracts, run experiments, and improve system performance with modern tooling.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front end focused programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript/ES6).
• Experience with front-end web frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, Lit, Polymer) and CSS.
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP; ability to design and implement APIs is a plus.
• Modern Workflows: interest in AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers to translate needs into reliable, low-latency solutions.
• End-to-End Delivery: Own full software lifecycle for major initiatives from design to rollout and observability.
• Metrics & Experimentation-Led Engineering: Design and evaluate A/B experiments using tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase.
• API & System Performance: Build and maintain scalable APIs and distributed backend services.
• Technical Rigor & Modern Tooling: Establish engineering best practices, improve workflows, mentor teammates, and leverage AI tools.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

ES6

Tools

React

Vue

Angular

Lit

Polymer

CSS

GraphQL

REST

Job description

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Product Engineers in Consumer Engineering partner directly with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Frontend Engineers to build, experiment with, and scale features that power how hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage with Reddit.

This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including:

• Core Product & Feeds: Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Content Contribution

• Community & Presence: Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools

• Growth & Engagement: Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding.

• Monetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization

• Identity & Security: Account Management, Trust & Safety

What You’ll Do

• Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions.

• End-to-End Delivery: Own the full software lifecycle for major product initiatives from technical design docs and API contracts to development, testing, rollout, and observability.

• Metrics & Experimentation-Led Engineering: Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments. Work with tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to analyze user behavior, conversion funnels, and retention loops to make data-backed engineering decisions.

• API & System Performance: Build and maintain scalable APIs (GraphQL, REST, gRPC) and distributed backend services optimized for client consumption and consumer UI performance.

• Technical Rigor & Modern Tooling: Establish engineering best practices, improve developer workflows, mentor teammates, and use modern, AI-integrated tools to ship high-quality products efficiently.

Who You Are

• User-Centric Mindset: An advocate for the user with an intuitive feel for product usability, interaction design, social dynamics, and user growth loops. You care deeply about why a feature is being built and its impact on the end user.

• Data-Informed & Hypothesis-Driven: Comfortable working alongside Data Scientists and PMs to design experiments, establish core performance metrics, and iterate quickly based on real-time feedback.

• Technical Rigor at Scale: 5+ years of hands-on backend development experience building and operating large-scale distributed serving systems in high-concurrency environments.

• Bias for Action: Self-directed, innovative, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in fast-paced product environments where balancing velocity with system reliability is essential.

• Collaborative Communicator: Outstanding communication skills with a track record of driving cross-functional alignment in fully remote or hybrid team environments.

Technical Qualifications

• 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

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

• Modern Workflows: Experience or interest in using AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development workflows.

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

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