Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

Reddit’s Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales products used directly by Redditors to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. The Senior Frontend Software Engineer partners with product, design, and engineering teams to develop and scale user-centric features across Reddit’s consumer products.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Mentorship & Engineering Standards: Help establish developer workflows, champion best practices, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers to elevate technical excellence across the team

Requirements:

• You bridge the gap between technical metrics and user experience, understanding how low-level optimizations impact real-world user engagement and product quality
• You strike the right balance between rapid iteration and architectural rigor, delivering scalable solutions without getting bogged down by unnecessary processes
• You excel in communicating complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• 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
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining robust APIs using protocols such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, HTTP, or Thrift basics
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience