Senior Web Engineer, Web Platform

Reddit is a community of communities and one of the internet’s largest sources of information. As a Senior Web Engineer on the Web Platform team, you will lead the development of Shreddit, focusing on platform architecture, performance, and developer experience, while collaborating with various teams to ensure a fast and stable web experience.

Responsibilities:

• Build with impact: Design and evolve the Shreddit web platform’s architecture, performance, and developer tooling that powers reddit.com for hundreds of millions of users across the world
• Own the web stack: Lead end‑to‑end delivery of complex, cross‑service initiatives in areas like asset delivery, html processing, observability and reliability for core web experiences
• Collaborate broadly: Partner with feature teams, infrastructure, safety, security and other platform teams to make Reddit’s web experience fast, stable, and accessible worldwide
• Multiply others: Mentor and coach other engineers through design reviews, pairing, and documentation, raising the bar for web engineering across Reddit
• Shape the platform: Be a thought partner in our web platform strategy, informing our roadmap for performance as a feature, observability, and developer experience

Requirements:

• 6+ years software engineering experience, with experience in working cross-functionally to lead projects from start to finish with end user impact
• Deep experience with modern web platform engineering: TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, bundlers (e.g., Vite, Rollup, Webpack), and Node performance observability tools
• Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular or Lit
• A past track record of quality: Enabling testing culture (unit/integration tests, local/automated testing, load and performance testing), Improving resiliency and fault tolerance of systems, Profiling and tuning performance of network calls, rendering, or data access paths
• You embody Reddit's core value of Evolve: Only by continually improving and learning will we succeed. You treat ambiguity and hard problems as learning opportunities, seek feedback, and continuously improve your craft and our platform