Senior Frontend Engineer, Community Builders

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. The Community Builders organization’s mission lies at the core of Reddit's success as a platform. We are seeking a talented Frontend Engineer to join our team. You'll be a key contributor to building and enhancing our products, developing features from end to end, and ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, and serve community builder needs. This role requires a passion for tackling complex challenges in a fast paced nimble environment.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain user facing product features while ensuring performance, security, and scalability of our systems; Work collaboratively with product managers, designers, data scientists and other engineers to deliver high-quality products; 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; Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development; Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative or computer science-related field, or equivalent experience; 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front end focused programming languages; Javascript, Typescript, ES6; Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS; Ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects, from initial design to deployment and maintenance; A passion for learning and adapting to new technologies; Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders; 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 can easily navigate failure.

Nice to have

Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs; 401k with Employer Match; Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support; Family Planning Support; Gender-Affirming Care; Mental Health & Coaching Benefits; Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off; Generous Paid Parental Leave; Equity in the form of restricted stock units; Eligibility for commission