reddit

Staff Frontend Engineer, Web Platform

reddit

Remote job description

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.

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.

The mission of the Web Platform team is to design, explore and create a solid foundation for our web products. Our customers are primarily other engineers. It's our job to help improve developer efficiency by providing libraries/APIs/frameworks, monitoring performance, improving build tools, etc. This role will enable us to execute one of the most important projects for the company now - a complete redesign of the web experience. Part of this role's responsibilities will be to own the design and execution of the complete redesign of Reddit Website both on mobile and desktop. In addition, this role will be instrumental in developing systems that help improve the quality, performance, and observability of the application.

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. We're completely remote friendly and will continue to be after the pandemic.

What We're Working On

  • Architecture redesign of our Frontend platform.
  • Driving new features from end-to-end through prototyping, validation, implementation, launch, and continuous iteration.
  • Crafting a modern user experience for accessing content and communities on Reddit.
  • Building the technical foundation for future features and experiences.

What We Can Expect From You

  • 8+ years of experience in web application development using JavaScript, TypeScript, or other relevant language.
  • Experience with NodeJS and one or more front-end web frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular
  • Deep experience with a modern web stack, whether it's Javascript bundlers, React internals, etc. You've debugged it, you've improved it, you can imagine doing it better.
  • Expert with software engineering best practices such as unit testing, code reviews, design, and documentation.
  • Willingness to buck trends and learn new ways to build software.
  • Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves people's lives globally.

Responsibilities:

  • Build a highly scalable, high quality, and low latency Web Platform at Reddit's scale.
  • Partner across product, design, and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions to complex challenges.
  • Build, and maintain feature systems spanning web and backend services.
  • Participate in the full development cycle: technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
  • You'll be reviewing code and design docs, and giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
  • Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.
  • Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, and coding standards.

Bonus Points:

  • Design expertise

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.




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Company name: reddit
Remote job title: Staff Frontend Engineer, Web Platform
Job tags: Application Development, Vue.js, TypeScript

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