Front End Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering
Remote - United States · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with cross-functional partners in product, design, and platform engineering to execute on product strategy and build novel, user-centric media features.
- Drive the complete development lifecycle-from technical design and architectural proposals to implementation, unit/integration testing, experimentation, performance analysis, and deployment.
- Move fast while maintaining high quality standards through thorough code reviews, detailed design doc evaluations, and constructive feedback on product specs and UI mocks.
- Product & Engineering Execution: Partner closely with cross-functional partners in product, design, and platform engineering to execute on product strategy and build novel, user-centric media features.
- Full-Lifecycle Development: Drive the complete development lifecycle-from technical design and architectural proposals to implementation, unit/integration testing, experimentation, performance analysis, and deployment.
- Quality & Velocity: Move fast while maintaining high quality standards through thorough code reviews, detailed design doc evaluations, and constructive feedback on product specs and UI mocks.
- API & System Design:
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining robust APIs using protocols such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, HTTP, or Thrift basics.
- Family Planning Support
Requirements
- Continuous Learner: You have a deep curiosity for emerging technologies and actively keep up with modern industry trends, standards, and performance optimizations.
- Frontend Expertise: Strong proficiency in modern web stacks, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with a proven track record of translating complex designs into responsive, production-grade applications.
- You have a deep curiosity for emerging technologies and actively keep up with modern industry trends, standards, and performance optimizations.
- Strong proficiency in modern web stacks, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with a proven track record of translating complex designs into responsive, production-grade applications.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
- Reddit is a community of communities.
- It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
- Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.
- For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.
- This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including:
- Core Product & Feeds:
- Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Contribution
- Community & Presence:
- Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools
- Growth & Engagement:
- Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding.
Compensation
- In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.
- To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state.
- We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.
- Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.
Equal opportunity
- Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
- If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
This listing is sourced directly from Reddit's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.