Senior iOS Engineer, Community Platform — Build & Scale

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago (CA, CA, NY, IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Benefits

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit Programs

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a talented iOS Engineer to join our team. You'll be a key contributor to building and enhancing our products, developing features from end to end, and ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, and serve community builder needs.

This role requires a passion for tackling complex challenges in a fast-paced, nimble environment, strong collaboration with product managers, designers, data scientists and engineers, and a willingness to mentor junior teammates as you grow.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Ownership of projects from design to deployment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications and services ensuring performance, security, and scalability.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists and engineers to deliver high-quality products.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch; review code and specs.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Collaboration

Entrepreneurial spirit

Learning mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

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 Community Builders organization’s mission lies at the core of Reddit's success as a platform. Our vision is for Reddit to be the best place to start and grow a community, where everyone can help build a space to connect with others. Our goal is to bridge the gap from a user's initial intent to a thriving community. We focus on creating joyful, low-effort, and modern experiences, ensuring that community building feels energizing rather than taxing. By offering opinionated, actionable guidance, we empower builders to successfully navigate the journey of their subreddit's life.

We are seeking a talented iOS Engineer to join our team. You'll be a key contributor to building and enhancing our products, developing features from end to end, and ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, and serve community builder needs. This role requires a passion for tackling complex challenges in a fast paced nimble environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications and services while ensuring the performance, security, and scalability of our systems..
• Work collaboratively with product managers, designers, data scientists and other engineers to deliver high-quality products.
• 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.
• 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.

Technologies We Use

Our teams leverage a diverse and modern technology stack. While specific technologies may vary by team, we generally work with:

• Languages: Go, Python, Swift
• Frameworks: Spark, Kafka, Airflow
• Datastores: BigQuery, Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL
• Tools: Kubernetes, Docker

What We are Looking For:

• A Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative or computer science-related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience in a scalable computing environment.
• Ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects, from initial design to deployment and maintenance.
• A passion for learning and adapting to new technologies.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• 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 can easily navigate failure.

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