Staff Engineer - Client Architecture for Video & Composer

Embedded Shishya; United States; Remote; USD 217,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Benefits

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender‑Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Off

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the architectural overhaul of post and comment composers across web and mobile platforms. You will define a multi-year vision for content creation, focusing on modernizing composers and enabling new contribution formats, including video creation and editing, while removing client-side friction and improving performance.

You will mentor the Contribution engineering team and align initiatives across Web, iOS, and Android, leveraging AI-assisted tooling to

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience on consumer-facing mobile or web client applications.
• Expert in modern web architecture (React, TypeScript) and native mobile paradigms (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin).
• Proven track record solving client-side performance and rendering bottlenecks at scale.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to influence VP-level technical direction.
• Experience leading large, cross-functional engineering initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Architect for Scale: define and execute the org-wide client architecture strategy to support video creation, editing, and uploading within shared composers.
• Accelerate Product Roadmap: build and scale new contribution formats within shared post and comment experiences.
• Mentorship & Org Leadership: serve as technical anchor for the Contribution engineering team across Web, iOS, Android.
• Leverage Modern Tooling: utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding.
• Optimize Contribution Funnel: lead engineers on high-performance client infrastructure and zero-latency rendering.

Skills

Senior Staff Engineer

Client Architecture

Web Architecture

iOS/Swift

Android/Kotlin

Performance optimization

Cross-functional leadership

Technical communication

Tools

React

TypeScript

Swift

Kotlin

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the architectural overhaul of post and comment composers across web and mobile platforms. You will define a multi-year vision for content creation, focusing on modernizing composers and enabling new contribution formats, including video creation and editing, while removing client-side friction and improving performance.

You will mentor the Contribution engineering team and align initiatives across Web, iOS, and Android, leveraging AI-assisted tooling to