Backend Engineer, Business Experience
The Business Experience team’s mission is to empower brands, organizations and professionals to create engaging content for our communities while growing their presence on Reddit. This is a high impact role where you will be involved in technical & product strategy on a brand new product. You’ll have a chance to get in on the ground floor of a new product space with a 100M+ revenue opportunity.
What You’ll Do:
- Work cross-functionally 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 junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
- Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.
Who You Might Be:
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++)
- Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
- A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule
- 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
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.
Reddit is a platform that connects millions of users through shared interests, enabling vibrant discussions across over 100,000 communities. It serves as a hub for authentic conversations, making it one of the most extensive sources of information and engagement on the internet.
- Founded
- Founded 2005
- Employees
- 51-200 employees
- Industry
- Internet Software & Services
- Total raised
- $100K raised