Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's Top of Funnel team as a Backend Engineer and play a key role in user growth. You will work cross-functionally to build and launch new products and features, contributing to the entire development lifecycle. This remote-friendly role requires 4+ years of software engineering experience and strong communication and problem-solving skills. You'll lead projects, foster a data-driven culture, and influence the team's roadmap. Preferred locations are Dublin, Ireland, or London, UK. Reddit offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, with experience in working cross-functionally to lead projects from start to finish with end-user impact
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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, and giving feedback on product specs and mocks
• Foster a data-driven culture within the team by running experiments, discovering insights, and generating ideas to optimize our systems
• Take accountability for the delivery of projects, be a hands-on engineer, and deliver solid and maintainable code
• Bring ideas, and directly influence the team's roadmap, collaborating closely with XFN stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge in data engineering including design, development and implementation of complex systems and data pipelines
• Experience working with data streaming/batch solutions such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, Storm, or others
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySql, Postgres, Teradata, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, HBase, etc.)

Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match
• Private Medical and Dental Scheme
• Income Replacement Programs
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Bike to Work scheme
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off