Senior Backend Engineer, Reddit
Poster Experience
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby
- Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep 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 Core Experience organization's mission is to empower people to participate in global conversations through communities
- Poster Experience specifically focuses on the user journey in creating posts at Reddit, which is the main source of user content for the product
- This is a high impact role where you will own projects from ideation to production, working with our super-talented cross-functional team
- You'll closely collaborate with product and design teams, and be responsible for the engineering architecture and execution of key product features
- Design, build, and ship backend services, experiments and products for millions of users
- Communicate effectively, within the team and across disciplines. Work closely with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences
- Contribute meaningfully to our team’s strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning our future. Don’t just come along for the ride
- Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs
- Foster a healthy engineering culture and collaborate with other engineers
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
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 values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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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