Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's User Economy team and help build innovative ways for users to earn money on the platform. As a key member of the engineering team, you will work on high-impact projects, collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams. You will contribute to the full development cycle, from design and development to testing and launch. The role requires strong technical skills, experience with large-scale distributed systems, and excellent communication and leadership abilities. You will also contribute to strategic planning and mentor junior engineers. Reddit offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

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