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[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer @Reddit
Apr 01, 2025 - Reddit is hiring a remote Staff Backend Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: UK, Ireland, Netherlands.
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Role Description
The Top of Funnel team is key to user growth. By combining our knowledge of search engines, with an eye for the best user experiences we have the opportunity to introduce Reddit to new and unfamiliar users and transform them into deeply engaged users.
We’re looking for a backend engineer who is comfortable taking on the end-to-end delivery & technical leadership of complex services.
Problem Spaces You’ll Work In:
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User Growth:
- Strategizing and implementing initiatives to attract and onboard new users to the platform.
- Optimizing the signup process and improving user landing experience.
- Exploring and leveraging marketing channels to drive traffic and acquire new users.
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Reddit Logged Out Experience:
- Optimizing everything that users see, touch, and interact with before they log in to Reddit.
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SEO:
- Improving the platform's search engine optimization for better representation in search results.
- Optimizing content and improving site linking architecture.
- Scaling crawling and indexing from 3rd Party search engines.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead key technical and design decisions across all areas mentioned above.
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts.
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
- Participate in team strategy and planning for the future.
- Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows and mentor junior engineers.
- Move fast while balancing quality, ensuring no show-stopping bugs.
Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
- 8+ 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.
- 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.
- Experience mentoring engineers, owning team processes, and leading cross-functional projects is preferred.
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
- Entrepreneurial spirit; self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
- Excellent communication skills; effective in a fully remote environment.
Requirements
- You’ve worked at a social platform or consumer-focused company, designing and scaling backend systems at massive scale.
- You bring an understanding of the intersection of Backend with AI/ML on user-facing products.
- You’re equally comfortable diving into codebases as you are making high-level architectural decisions.
- You’re a thought leader and collaborative partner who thrives on tackling complex technical challenges.
- Knowledge in data engineering including design, development and implementation of complex systems and data pipelines.
- Experience working with data streaming/batch solutions such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, Storm, or others.
Benefits
- Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match
- Private Medical and Dental Scheme
- Income Replacement Programs
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Bike to Work scheme
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
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UK, Ireland, Netherlands
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Apr 01, 2025
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