Backend Engineer, Feeds Experience

Reddit is a community of communities, home to authentic conversations on the internet. The Feeds Experience team is seeking a Backend Engineer to enhance user interactions across Reddit's platform by developing and implementing backend services that support high-traffic feed pages.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate a high-caliber, inclusive team of engineers
• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to build novel products and features that our users will love
• Work alongside 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
• Participate in the full development cycle: design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be writing and reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks, and ensuring successful delivery of key projects
• You will be a key driver in the planning, development, and implementation across Reddit’s backend service architecture in service of our native mobile and web clients as part of a full stack team
• Enable a culture of metrics led execution, with a focus on operational excellence and system observability

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing applications
• Fluency working with product metrics, designing and analyzing experiments with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; e.g. Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++
• Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong focus on user experience and usability. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people think and how they interact with software
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity
• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate with teams in a fully remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working with ML engineering teams and integrating ML solutions is a plus
• Experience with social or e-commerce is a huge plus