Senior Frontend Engineer, Community Builders

About the role

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet, with 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors. The Community Builders organization's mission is central to Reddit's success, focusing on making Reddit the best place to start and grow a community. We aim to bridge the gap from a user's initial intent to a thriving community by creating joyful, low-effort, and modern experiences.

We are seeking a talented Frontend Engineer to join our team. You'll be a key contributor to building and enhancing our products, developing features from end to end, and ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, and serve community builder needs. This role requires a passion for tackling complex challenges in a fast-paced, nimble environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain user-facing product features while ensuring performance, security, and scalability of our systems.
• Work collaboratively with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to deliver high-quality products.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. Review code and design docs, give feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative or computer science-related field, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front-end focused programming languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6.
• Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular, with experience in CSS.
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.
• Ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects, from initial design to deployment and maintenance.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.

Skills

• Passion for learning and adapting to new technologies.
• Entrepreneurial spirit: self-directed, innovative, and biased toward action in fast-paced environments. You thrive in ambiguity and can easily navigate failure.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.
• 401k with Employer Match.
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support.
• Family Planning Support.
• Gender-Affirming Care.
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits.
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off.
• Generous Paid Parental Leave.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $190,000—$267,000 USD. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.