Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join the Vertical Experiences team as a Senior Engineer to create and scale features and services for joyful, engaging, and international experiences on Reddit.

Requirements

• 6+ years post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional backend development experience with multiple parts of the backend stack, from databases to networking to computing infrastructure
• Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load with hundreds of thousands concurrent users
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical teams in a fully remote environment
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
• You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation
• Experience developing consumer-facing public applications is preferred

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features, experiments and products for millions of users to support our international growth
• Communicate effectively, within the team and across disciplines. Work closely with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences
• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and designs
• 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
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off