Frontend Software Engineer III

Summary

Join Reddit's Profiles team and contribute to the development of innovative products and features for a high-traffic website. This high-impact role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, participating in the full development lifecycle, and mentoring junior engineers. You will work on technical and product strategy, operations, and architecture for a large-scale website. The ideal candidate possesses extensive front-end development experience, strong communication skills, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Reddit offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health benefits, retirement savings, workspace benefits, personal and professional development funds, and flexible vacation time.

Requirements

• Minimum 6+ years of non-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience developing software in one or more front end focused programming languages; Javascript, Typescript, ES6
• Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• 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
• Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

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
• Review 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 junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong hands-on professional experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
• Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Benefits
• Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Generous time off for vacation
• Parental leave