Senior Backend Engineer, Growth Onboarding

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Backend Development • $190,800 PA - $267,100 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be an integral part of the Growth - Onboarding Engineering team, focusing on driving user growth, engagement, and retention. You will be responsible for writing clean, well-tested, and maintainable code, driving strategic engineering initiatives, defining and implementing impactful experiments with Product and Data Science teams, leveraging data for optimization, participating in design reviews, and mentoring junior engineers. This role requires a commitment to continuous learning and a culture of ownership. The engineer will shape the architecture and strategic direction of the onboarding experience, which includes personalized recommendations, onboarding flows, sign-up and authentication, and user education, ensuring the user's first logged-in session is successful.
Must have:
  • Write clean, well tested, maintainable code.
  • Design and implement complex architectures.
  • Strong experience in backend technologies.
Good to have:
  • Growth Engineering - Industry experience
  • Experience with LLMs and generative AI
Perks:
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off

Job Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Reddit has a flexible workforce!  If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence.

The Growth - Onboarding Engineering team sits at the intersection of engineering and product, focused on driving user growth, engagement, and retention across Reddit.  We own the onboarding experience that connects users to authentic conversations on the platform – starting from their first logged-in session. Think personalized recommendations, onboarding flows, sign up and authentication, user education and A/B testing at scale – we're the engine behind the numbers. As a Senior Engineer on this team, you're not just building—you're shaping the architecture and strategic direction. We're a team with a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and a deep commitment to data-informed decision making. We highly value autonomy and encourage engineers to take initiative and drive impactful projects from start to finish.

As a Senior Backend engineer on the Growth - Onboarding team, you will:

Responsibilities:

  • Execution: Write clean, well tested, maintainable code that adheres to best practices.
  • Drive Strategic Initiatives: Proactively identify and champion strategic engineering initiatives to improve growth infrastructure and processes.
  • Experimentation Advocate: Work closely with Product, Data Science, and other teams on Growth to define, design, and implement impactful experiments. Champion best practices in experimentation methodology.
  • Data-Driven Optimization: Leverage data to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization across the user lifecycle. You'll be analyzing metrics, identifying trends, and collaborating to implement solutions.
  • Collaboration & Innovation: Participate in design reviews, contribute to architectural decisions, and actively seek opportunities to improve our processes and tooling.
  • Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with recent experience in a Senior role
  • Experience executing on large scale projects from 0 to 1
  • Strong Architectural Experience: Demonstrated ability to design and implement complex architectures, making key technology decisions.
  • Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of backend technologies, including Golang (preferred), distributed systems, databases (SQL and NoSQL), and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
  • Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience with A/B testing frameworks and experimentation platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Growth Engineering - Industry experience
  • Experience with LLMs and generative AI

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
  • Generous paid Parental Leave  
  • Paid Volunteer time off

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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