Fullstack Software Engineer, Reddit
Notifications Lifecycle
$164-229k
+ RSUs
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Open for applications
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$164-229k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- You may demonstrate skills in one or more of the following: written/verbal communication, project leadership, engineering culture improvements, collaboration with cross-function outside of engineering
- You embody our company value of Evolve: you view challenges as learning opportunities and continuously seek to improve
What the job involves
- As a full-stack engineer on the Notifications team, you’ll design, build and scale products within our notifications system, with a focus on the end user experience
- You’ll have an opportunity to work across the stack and with cross-functional teams such as Product, Machine Learning and Data Science
- Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world
- Designing, developing, and maintaining backend services that handle notifications and emails while ensuring the performance, security, and scalability of our systems
- Designing, developing, and maintaining high quality, performant frontend features
- Contributing to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be writing design docs and code, and get valuable feedback on your work
- Working collaboratively with product managers, designers, data scientists and other engineers to deliver high-quality products
- Contributing to the infrastructure that supports all of the above
- Our teams leverage a diverse and modern technology stack. While specific technologies may vary by team, we generally work with:
- Languages: Go, Python, Typescript, GQL
- Frameworks: Spark, Kafka, Airflow
- Datastores: BigQuery, Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL
- Tools: Kubernetes, Docker
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.
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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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