Backend Engineer - Ranking Foundation

The Ranking Foundation team’s mission is to help users find what they’re looking for every time they come to Reddit and that aligns with their intents interests. The team works with the billions of events and terabytes of data generated every day to personalize Reddit posts and comments for each user on the platform helping them connect and engage with their communities while discovering the best of Reddit.

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.

Who You Might Be:

• BS degree in Computer Science a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

• 3+ 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

• A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems

• 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

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

• 401k Matching

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• Personal & Professional development funds

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days

• 4+ months paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off