Senior Software Engineer, Reddit Pro - Publishers

Reddit Reddit · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · Consumer

Senior Software Engineer for Reddit Pro, focusing on empowering brands and publishers to create engaging content and grow their presence on Reddit. This role involves technical and product strategy, contributing to the full development cycle of new products and features, and working on scalable and reliable serving systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making processes for backend development.
  5. Move fast while balancing quality. We can’t afford extensive processes, and we also can’t afford show-stopping bugs. We need someone who can balance speed with quality while quickly building brand-new products.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems
  • 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++)
  • Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
  • Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra
  • A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
  • A track record of leading sized projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
  • Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule
  • 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 partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

What the JD emphasized

  • build novel products and features
  • full development cycle
  • Move fast while balancing quality
  • quickly building brand-new products