Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Developer Platform’s mission is to empower our community of 3rd party developers and moderators to extend Reddit with useful and exciting features.

We’ve built a Reddit-flavored SDK for server driven cross-platform UI, a compute platform, and lots of entry-points into Reddit products.

We’re looking for someone to take charge of our Typescript ecosystem as a technical leader and major contributor.

This is a high impact role where you will have the opportunity to invent new front-end paradigms, and see them used on one of the largest sites in the world.

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.

Qualifications:

8+ years of hands-on, non-internship, professional experience in fast-paced software development
You have extensive experience (and opinions) on more than one front-end paradigms; (e.g. React, Lit, Next.js, Svelte, Vue)
Understanding of Javascript runtimes like Node, JavaScript WebWorkers, and WebAssembly
Experience working on a 0-1 team and product, inventing technologies to meet novel use cases
Exceptional communication skills with peers, cross-functional partners and leadership
You love writing technical docs and convincing others of your approach.
Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Health benefits
401k Matching
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation Reddit Global Days Off
4+ months paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off

This role is US- or Canada-based and 100%, permanently remote.

The pay transparency language below applies to the US pay range only.

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:

$198,200$297,300 USD

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.

Staff Frontend Engineer, Developer Platform: Reddit Experience