Web Engineer, Search Experiences

Reddit, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 164,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Web Engineer for the Search Experiences team to enhance the UI/UX of their search technologies. This fully remote-friendly position involves ownership of user-facing features and collaboration with ML and Search practitioners. Applicants should have substantial proficiency in modern web technologies and a passion for building engaging user experiences.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Match

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off

Paid Volunteer time off

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Family Planning Support

Qualifications

• 3+ years software engineering experience.
• Expertise in Lit-Element, Web Components, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience in building user-facing features from design to finish.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end UI/UX experiences.
• Design and implement the next generation of Reddit Feeds & Search experiences.
• Work with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences.

Skills

Full stack web development

UI/UX Design

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

GraphQL

React

Typescript

Golang

Python

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com .

Location:
This role is completely remote-friendly . If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.

Who We Are: The mission of the Search Experiences team is to empower users to safely navigate, find, and engage with the breadth and depth of Reddit; a team that is used by ⅕ of all Redditors daily! This includes enabling product development teams across the company, and serving as the client access layer for all of Reddit's rich dataset while driving the next generation of user experiences.

What You’ll Do:Search is one our most viewed product surfaces, and a huge responsibility for the shepherds of these surfaces. This role will encompass ownership of the end to end UI/UX experiences that expose the latest advancements in Search technologies at Reddit. Furthermore, this is an opportunity to work closely with ML and Search practitioners to deliver a Search user experience that is safe, performant and engaging.

As a Web Engineer on the Search Experiences team, you’ll draw on your technical expertise (whether it's Lit-Element, SDUI, GraphQL, or React) to architect, implement, and maintain best in class UI/UX experiences that will advance Reddit’s efforts to bring community and belonging to everyone on the planet.

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in Lit-Element, Web Components, React or equivalent web technologies, with experience developing Web applications
• Design and implement the next generation of Reddit Feeds & Search experiences
• Work with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences
• Champion and drive engineering processes and best practices
• Write efficient, scalable and maintainable code that will help us iterate quickly and safely

Who You Might Be:

• 3+ years software engineering experience, and expect experience building user facing features from design to finish:
  • We are looking for someone with full stack web development experience, with a balance of experience across modern web technologies and backend service code
  • We are language-agnostic when hiring but use primarily typescript in the frontend, and GraphQL, golang, python in the backend stack.
• A past track record of Quality, for example:
  • Familiarity with unit testing and other automated testing.
  • Ability to code with resiliency and fault tolerance in mind
  • Has operational experience supporting live ops for websites
• Collaboration skills: you work well with a team!
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$164,200 - $229,900 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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