Senior Backend Engineer, Reddit
Vertical Experiences
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional backend development experience with multiple parts of the backend stack, from databases to networking to computing infrastructure
- Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load with hundreds of thousands concurrent users
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical teams in a fully remote environment
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
- You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation
- Experience developing consumer-facing public applications is preferred
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer you will play a leading role in creating and scaling features and services to support joyful, engaging and international experiences
- You’ll own projects from ideation to production
- You’ll work with a super-talented, cross-functional team to solve hard problems to create experiences that users will love
- We are a team of builders that value impact, personal growth, openness, and kindness
- Design, build, and ship features, experiments and products for millions of users to support our international growth
- Communicate effectively, within the team and across disciplines. Work closely with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences
- Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and designs
- Participate with 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
- Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities
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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