Backend Engineer, Reddit Pro for Publishers

52 Minutes ago • 3 Years +
Backend Development

Job Description

The Reddit Pro team is seeking a Backend Engineer to empower brands, publishers, and professionals to create engaging content and grow their presence on Reddit through advanced tooling. This high-impact role involves contributing to technical and product strategy, executing the full development cycle from design to launch, and collaborating cross-functionally. The engineer will also help improve developer workflows and mentor team members, building novel products and features for Reddit's communities.
Must Have:
  • Collaborate cross-functionally on product and business strategy.
  • Contribute to full development cycle: design, development, test, launch.
  • Review code, design docs, and provide feedback on product specs.
  • Improve developer workflows and mentor engineers.
  • Contribute to strategic planning for backend development.
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years production coding experience (clean, maintainable, tested).
  • 2+ years designing large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with Golang, Python, or Java.
  • Proficiency in GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift, or gRPC.
  • Ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
Perks:
  • Comprehensive Health benefits
  • Registered Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions
  • Income Replacement Programs
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

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The Reddit Pro team’s mission is to empower brands, publishers, organizations and professionals to create engaging content for our communities while growing their presence on Reddit through Reddit Pro. Reddit Pro is an ongoing initiative that offers advanced tooling for businesses that unlocks the power of Reddit’s 100k active communities & conversations – where opinions are formed and decisions are made. Longer term, businesses will also be able to build on this deep relationship with their Reddit communities by leveraging complementary monetized solutions from Reddit.

This is a high impact role where you will be involved in technical & product strategy and have a chance to get in on the ground floor of a new product space.

What You’ll Do:

  • 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.
  • 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 engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
  • Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making processes for backend development.

Who You Might Be:

  • BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
  • 2+ years of industry experience designing large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as but not limited to: Golang, Python, or Java
  • Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
  • Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills, with a track record of mentoring and developing junior engineers.
  • 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.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Health benefits
  • Registered Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions
  • Income Replacement Programs
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

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