Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's Pro team and contribute to the development of novel products and features. Work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering teams to execute on product and business strategy. Participate in the full development cycle, from technical design and development to testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch. Collaborate with a team of engineers, contributing to standards and mentoring junior engineers. Balance speed and quality in a fast-paced environment. This high-impact role offers the chance to be involved in technical and product strategy from the ground floor of a new product space.

Requirements

• Minimum 6+ years of post-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
• Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems
• 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
• 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 junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise
• Move fast while balancing quality

Preferred Qualifications

Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus

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