Senior Frontend Engineer, Safety Tools

At Reddit we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day as we work towards our vision to create a welcoming experience where anyone in the world feels a sense of belonging. Safety Tools is a close-knit team, working tirelessly towards protecting mods and their communities from bad actors and building safety tooling at scale to help our own admins safeguard these spaces.

Safety Tools team members are motivated to find innovative, state of the art solutions, leveraging ML models and user insights to pursue the highest possible quality and safety standards for users across our products.

If ensuring the safety of users, moderators and communities on one of the most popular websites in the world excites you, then you’ve found the right place. We’re a fast-growing company but still maintain one of the highest user to employee ratios in the industry, giving you a tremendous opportunity for both scope and impact.

Responsibilities:

• Be part of a team that’s building a highly scalable, high quality, and low latency web platform at Reddit’s scale.

• Partner and collaborate with partner teams to deliver high quality UI components 

• Tackle tough design and product problems.

• Work cross-functionally with design, product, and engineering to deliver great user experiences.

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

Who You Might Be

• 4+ years of industry experience as a Software Engineer developing production code

• Experience with React is preferred

• Preferred Experience in one or more of the following areas: GraphQL, Golang, Python

• Exposure to design patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms

• Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.

• Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

• Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.

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