Staff iOS Engineer, Reddit
Media Foundation
$217-303k
+ Equity
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Open for applications
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$217-303k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a stellar engineer with a deep understanding of scalable media solutions who can drive innovation, deliver top-tier video experiences to our users, and guide other teams in seamlessly integrating with our video API
- At least 8+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift
- In-depth knowledge of AVFoundation for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities
- Strong understanding of Core Media for timing and synchronization and Core Video for buffer handling, essential for custom playback and real-time video manipulation
- Familiarity with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, and other streaming protocols, as well as working knowledge of streaming frameworks and CDN integration for optimized video delivery
- Familiarity with reactive frameworks (RxSwift, Combine)
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
- 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 even failure
- Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
What the job involves
- The Media Foundation’s mission is simple: Delivering seamless, high-performance media experiences that meet and exceed industry standards, ensuring unparalleled engagement across all platforms at Reddit
- Media is the most engaging medium on Reddit, whether it’s for posts, comments, or ads
- This is a pivotal role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit's media experience across all devices
- This role not only involves building robust media capabilities but also contributing to the growth and strength of our media engineering team as Reddit continues to scale
- This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world
- Architect a highly modular, easy-to-integrate iOS video player that enables other teams to build features effortlessly while delivering first-class performance for users
- Partner with backend media infrastructure and CDN teams to optimize global delivery and performance
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel media products and features that our users will love
- Work with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. 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
- Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgement to validate and own the final outputs
Our take
Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 130,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment and sports, to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.
The platform attracts over 120 million daily users and billions of monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddit stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.
Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation, connection and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
- Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal & professional development funds
- Paid volunteer time off
- Workspace & home office benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO & Founder)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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