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Senior Backend Engineer, Top of Funnel

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Salary:

191 - 267K yearly

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

6+ years of professional backend development experience., Ability to design complex distributed systems under high load., Experience developing consumer-facing public applications preferred., Strong organizational skills and task prioritization., Excellent communication skills in remote environments..

Key responsabilities:

Work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering teams.
Communicate effectively for compelling user experiences.
Contribute to team strategy and planning.
Participate in product reviews and provide technical insight.
Collaborate to foster a healthy engineering culture.

Reddit Internet Unicorn https://www.redditinc.com/

501 - 1000 Employees

HQ: San Francisco

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Job description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on one of the most influential and trafficked corners of the internet.

The Top of Funnel team is key to user growth. By combining our knowledge of search, cutting edge technology, and an eye for new user experiences we get the opportunity to present Reddit to new and unfamiliar users, with the mission of bringing community and belonging to everyone in the world.

This role is eligible for being fully remote, however, we are only considering candidates located in CST & EST timezones.

The Role

Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute product and business strategies and build novel products and features that our users will love.
Communicate effectively, within the team and across disciplines. Work closely with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences.
Contribute meaningfully to our team’s strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning our future. Don’t just come along for the ride.
Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.
Foster a healthy engineering culture and collaborate with other engineers.
Work on complex projects, requiring massive scale and excellent system design, leveraging GraphQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, S3 Airflow and others, building our services in Python and Go.

Qualifications:

6+ years post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional backend development experience with multiple parts of the backend stack.
Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load with hundreds of thousands concurrent users.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical teams in a fully remote environment.
Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation.
Experience developing consumer-facing public applications is preferred.

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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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

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. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800—$267,100 USD

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.