Staff Frontend Software Engineer, Reddit Answers

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 116 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Location:

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly. U.S. time zones are preferred.

Team Description:

Reddit Answers is a new AI-powered search experience that makes it effortless to see what real humans think about almost any topic in the world. Our goal is to make Reddit the best place on the internet to find answers, opinions, and conversations. Redditors produce the most amazing content about every niche topic – this underleveraged data coupled with modern advances in AI systems is presenting a unique opportunity to quickly build a new kind of search engine.

Role Description:

As a product engineer, you’ll help ideate, design, build and scale products within the Reddit Answers product space, with a focus on the web platform - Reddit’s biggest. You’ll have an opportunity to work across the stack and with cross-functional teams such as Product, Design, ML and Data Science. You’ll join a lean, high-impact team and immediately have a chance to directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

Responsibilities:

• Ideate, design, build, and ship experiments and features that reach millions of users and advance our product vision.

• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to create compelling, user-focused experiences, and communicate effectively across teams and disciplines.

• Shape team strategy by contributing meaningful insights and helping to drive alignment toward shared objectives.

• Engage actively in product reviews and team discussions, offering technical perspective while helping to scope, estimate, and prioritize competing needs.

• Foster a strong engineering culture by mentoring, collaborating with peers, and helping set a high standard for quality and UX

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in web application development using JavaScript or other relevant languages

• Experience with common front-end web component frameworks (such as React), and server-side rendering frameworks (such as Next.js)

• Strong understanding of JavaScript fundamentals, web performance

• Have a strong product sense, and be comfortable translating data and user feedback into features

• Experience in other more general purpose programming languages (e.g. Python, Go).

• Familiar with software engineering best practices such as unit testing and code reviews, design, and documentation.

• Understanding customer needs and translating them into product features is a plus.

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 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 salary 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 salary range for this position is:
$217,000—$303,900 USD

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