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Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Moderation

"The front page of the internet,” Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.

Reddit

Employee count: 501-1000

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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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Moderation Engineering organization’s mission lies at the core of Reddit's success as a platform: we build features that enable moderators to create and grow meaningful, destination communities. Moderators are a key pillar of Reddit’s success, and act as community leaders and tastemakers, ensuring there’s something on Reddit for everyone. With such huge responsibility, Reddit's moderation system needs to be simple and easy to use so moderators can focus their energy on creating and cultivating thriving communities. The Moderation Experience team is focused on creating a one stop shop for Moderators to effortlessly complete their daily workflows and foster their communities.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Full-Stack Engineer to join our team. You'll be a key contributor to building and enhancing our products, developing features from end to end, and ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, and serve moderator needs. This role requires a passion for tackling complex challenges in a fast paced nimble environment.

What You’ll Do:

  • Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications and services while ensuring the performance, security, and scalability of our systems..
  • Work collaboratively with product managers, designers, data scientists and other engineers to deliver high-quality products.
  • 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.
  • Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
  • Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Technologies We Use

Our teams leverage a diverse and modern technology stack. While specific technologies may vary by team, we generally work with:

  • Languages: Go, Python, TypeScript
  • Frameworks: Lit, Node.js, Spark, Kafka, Airflow
  • Datastores: BigQuery, Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Docker

What We are Looking For:

  • A Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative or computer science-related field.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience in a scalable computing environment.
  • Ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects, from initial design to deployment and maintenance.
  • A passion for learning and adapting to new technologies.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and can easily navigate failure.

Our mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

We are building a Compliance Engineering team as part of Reddit's technical journey.

The SPACE (Security Privacy and corporate Engineering org) is building a Compliance Eng team at Reddit, that is responsible for preparing our platforms for constantly evolving regulatory requirements. We are also building foundational products that are impactful for Reddit’s future. We work closely with teams across the company to ensure every platform we support and feature we ship meets the highest standards and quality bar. The projects we undertake span multiple domains and technology stacks and successful engineers in this role will be adaptable and thrive in ambiguous problem spaces.

What You’ll Do:

  • Adapt our platforms to the ever changing privacy, security and regulatory landscape
  • Work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineers across Reddit to ensure compliance of our platforms
  • Help build a new team within Reddit and drive its roadmap, processes and execution
  • Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. Coordinate high impact, highly cross functional business critical projects and features.
  • 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.

This is a high impact role where you will be involved in technical product strategy and have a chance to get in on the ground floor of a new product space.

Qualification Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent technical expertise
  • 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift
  • You have experience working with various iOS libraries such as UIKit, Combine, Swift Concurrency, and Apollo GraphQL
  • You have experience working with API design and interfacing with backend services, as well as 3rd party services via SDK and webviews.
  • You are a strategic thinker who thrives on developing a long-term technical foundation and has a passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves people’s lives globally.
  • A track record of leading large projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
  • Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, data teams to deliver great user experiences.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation Reddit Global Days off
  • Generous paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Volunteer time off

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

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, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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"The front page of the internet,” Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities. Come for the cats, stay for the empathy.

Founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit is an online community where users submit, vote, and comment on content, news, and discussions. Nicknamed "the front page of the internet,"​ Reddit is one of the top ten sites in the United States (source: Alexa) with 130k+ communities and 430M+ users each month on desktop, mobile web, and our official Android/iOS apps.

Reddit is home to thousands of communities, endless conversation, and authentic human connection. Whether you're into breaking news, sports, TV fan theories, or a never-ending stream of the internet's cutest animals, there's a community on Reddit for you.

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Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave.

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