Senior Frontend Software Engineer - Profile Features

Reddit’s consumer profile is a central part of a Redditor’s world and acts as a key entry point to their interests and contributions on Reddit. The Profiles team is focused on making profiles an open safe and expressive part of Reddit for all users further encouraging growth in user contributions. This is a high impact role where you will be involved in related technical and product strategy operations architecture and execution for a high traffic and large website.

What You’ll Do:

• Work cross-functionally 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 junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.

• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Candidate Qualifications:

• Minimum 6+ years of non-internship full-time hands-on professional software development experience developing software 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.

• Strong hands-on professional experience with GraphQL REST HTTP Thrift basics and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.

• Experienced with distributed caching layers and distributed large scale data storage systems.

• Strong organizational skills the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver 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 partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits

• Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• Personal & Professional development funds

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off