Senior Software Engineer, Reddit
Search
$198-267.1k
+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$198-267.1k
+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Java, 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 mission of the Search Experiences team is to empower users to safely navigate, find, and engage with the breadth and depth of Reddit; a team that is used by ⅕ of all Redditors daily!
- His includes enabling product development teams across the company, and serving as the client access layer for all of Reddit's rich dataset while driving the next generation of user experiences
- This layer provides consistent and clear interfaces, strong contracts, and world-class developer ergonomics so that client and other engineers can focus on the product
- As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Search Experiences team, you’ll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with other technical leaders to build a longer term roadmap to match the needs of an ever evolving search ecosystem
- You’ll also look for opportunities to engage with the search, GraphQL, and ML community at large, presenting and sharing Reddit’s accomplishments within the industry, and bringing in good ideas from other peers
- Building new GraphQL endpoints for external public facing consumers
- Scaling out internal ranking tools to deliver the best, most relevant results
- Building out new internal APIs that power ML driven consumer UIs
- Designing an architecture that is performant, stable, secure, and low cost
- Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals
- Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture
- Work together with a variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit engineering
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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Founders
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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