Engineering Manager - Commenting Experience

The Commenting Experience team is responsible for one of the highest traffic pages on the platform: the Comments page. We know that conversations are the lifeblood of Reddit so we strive to ensure the comment contribution experience is intuitive and delightful for all users. This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy operations architecture and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

This role can be remote within the United States or Canada or can be a hybrid model if near an office. Offices are located in San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago New York City and Toronto.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and operate a high-caliber inclusive team of engineers.

• 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.

• Lead 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.

• Participate in the full development cycle: design development test experimentation analysis and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs giving feedback on product specs and mocks and generally helping out wherever is needed.

• Drive a culture of technical excellence ensuring the right bets are taken with the highest quality.

• You will be a key driver in the planning development and implementation across Reddit’s backend service architecture and our various client platforms including native applications (iOS and Android) and Web.

• Set and enable a culture of metrics led execution with efficient processes and strong levels of transparency.

Who You Might Be:

• 2+ years building and managing high performing engineering teams.

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing applications

• Fluency working with product metrics and exposure to tools like GA BigQuery etc.

• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; e.g. Python Go Swift Kotlin Rust Java C++

• Strong organizational skills the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.

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

• Strong focus on user experience and usability. You are an undying advocate for the user and you have a deep intuition for how people think and how they interact with software. Experience with social or e-commerce is a huge plus.

• Entrepreneurial spirit. You must be self-directed innovative and biased towards action. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity.

• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

• Demonstrated ability to lead with empathy and foster a supportive team environment

Benefits:

• Annual Personal & Professional development funds

• Comprehensive Health benefits

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• 401k Matching

• Family Planning Support

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

• 4+ months paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off