Senior Backend Engineer, Top of Funnel

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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