Senior Backend Engineer - Conversation Experiences

The Conversation Experiences team is responsible for one of the highest traffic pages on the platform: the Comments page. We know that conversations are the lifeblood of Reddit, so we strive to ensure viewing content and the surrounding conversation is appealing, intuitive and delightful. This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

What You’ll Do:

• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.

• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.

• Participate with 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.

• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Qualifications for this role:

• 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems. 

• 4+ years experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust)

• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.

• Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra.

• A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems

• A track record of leading sized projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations

• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.

• Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

• 401k Matching

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• Personal & Professional development funds

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days

• 4+ months paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

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