Senior Backend Software Engineer, Reddit

Community Engineering

$190.8-267.1k

+ RSUs

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

Chicago

Los Angeles

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Toronto

Remote from US

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Posted today

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Posted today

$190.8-267.1k

+ RSUs

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

Chicago

Los Angeles

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Toronto

Remote from US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust, etc)
Proven experience building backend systems for large-scale consumer platforms, or social platforms in a high pace environment. Experience with maintaining and optimizing high traffic distributed systems
Strong troubleshooting abilities ranging from business logic concerns to system performance and stability
Strong organizational skills. The ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action. 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

Community Engineering’s mission is to empower communities to succeed from inception through scale
This team brings together all aspects of successful communities: discovery and growth, consumption, moderation, stewardship, and governance
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
You'll work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love
Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks
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

Our take

Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.

The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.

Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

57% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2021

$410m

SERIES F

Feb 2021

$250m

SERIES E

Total funding: $1.2bn

Company benefits

Paid volunteer time off
4+ months paid parental leave
Personal and professional development stipend
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Steve Huffman

(CEO)

After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.

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