Senior Software Engineer, Home Experience & Feeds

EngineersOfAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Global benefit programs

Job summary

Reddit’s Home Experience team owns the high-traffic Feed pages on apps and web. You’ll partner with product, design and other engineers to build new features that users love, improve developer workflows, and mentor teammates.

You’ll own the full development cycle from design to launch, writing code and design docs, and ensuring delivery across backend services for mobile and web clients. You should bring a strong user-experience focus, be self-directed, and communicate effectively in a fully

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building user-facing software
• Experience designing and analyzing experiments with product metrics
• Proficiency in one or more general-purpose languages (Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, C#)
• Experience using GenAI to boost engineering productivity
• Nice to have ML integration experience
• BS degree in CS or equivalent
• Strong focus on user experience and usability, with social features awareness

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to build novel features loved by users
• Mentor engineers, set standards, and improve developer workflows
• Own end-to-end development cycle: design, code, test, experiment, analyze, and launch
• Contribute to backend architecture supporting mobile and web clients
• Drive metrics-led execution and operational excellence

Skills

6+ years experience

Metrics-focused

General purpose languages

GenAI tools

Strong communication

Education

BS in CS or related field

Tools

BigQuery

HEX

Firebase

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

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 across Reddit’s backend service architecture in service of our native mobile and web clients as part of a full stack team.
• 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 experience as a software engineer developing user-facing applications
• Fluency working with product metrics, designing and analyzing experiments with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc.
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; e.g. Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, C#
• Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity.
• Experience working with ML engineering teams and integrating ML solutions is a plus.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to breakdown and prioritize tasks for yourself and others while keeping projects on schedule.
• BS degree in Computer Science, 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 must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity.
• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate with teams in a fully remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

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 car