Senior Software Engineer, Community Builders

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Frontend Engineer to build and enhance user-facing features across our products. You will work with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable experiences for communities.

This role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, performance, and security, with opportunities to mentor others and shape frontend standards in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience in frontend focused languages (Javascript/Typescript/ES6).
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular and CSS.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain user facing product features with performance, security, and scalability in mind.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists and engineers to deliver high-quality products.
• Contribute to the full development cycle including design, development, testing, experimentation, and launch.

Skills

Javascript

TypeScript

ES6

React

Vue

Angular

CSS

GraphQL

REST

End-to-end ownership

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related field

Tools

LIT

Polymer

React

Vue

Angular

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 Frontend 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 user facing product features while ensuring 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.

Who you might be:

• A Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative or computer science-related field, or equivalent experience.
• 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.
• 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 environment