iOS Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

Reddit is a community of communities built around shared interests, passion, and trust. The Consumer Engineering organization is seeking an iOS Software Engineer to build and scale user-facing iOS experiences for discovering, consuming, creating, and engaging with content and communities. The role involves leading projects through the full development lifecycle, partnering cross-functionally, and improving iOS architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, and engineering standards.

Responsibilities:

• Build and evolve user-facing iOS experiences that help people discover, consume, create, and engage with content and communities
• Lead projects through the full development lifecycle, from product definition and technical design to implementation, experimentation, launch, and ongoing improvement
• Partner with product, design, data science, ML, backend, and platform teams to shape strategy, translate technical capabilities into intuitive experiences, and deliver measurable user impact
• Improve iOS architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, developer workflows, and engineering standards while mentoring teammates and driving cross-functional technical initiatives

Requirements:

• An experienced iOS engineer who has built and shipped consumer-facing native applications at scale using Swift
• A strategic, product-minded partner who connects technical decisions to user and business outcomes and can lead through ambiguity
• A clear and collaborative communicator who can explain complex tradeoffs, influence stakeholders, and build alignment across teams
• A curious, adaptable, and ownership-oriented teammate who embraces experimentation, learns from setbacks, improves processes, and helps others succeed
• Professional experience developing native iOS applications with Swift and a strong understanding of iOS frameworks and application architecture
• Ability to write idiomatic, readable, reusable, and testable code, with strong skills in debugging, performance optimization, reliability, and maintainability
• Experience designing mobile systems and interfaces, evaluating architectural tradeoffs, and building scalable features from APIs through user-facing UI
• Experience with experimentation, feature flags, instrumentation, analytics, and product or quality-of-experience metrics
• familiarity with AVFoundation, VideoToolbox, HLS, media playback, recommendation systems, accessibility, or ML-integrated products is a plus