Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering
Reddit · Remote - United States
About this role
**Reddit Consumer Engineering — Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Consumer Engineering)** Reddit is a community of communities—built on shared interests, passion, and trust. With 100,000+ active communities and ~130M daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. The **Reddit Consumer Engineering** organization builds and scales the products Redditors use to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Product Engineers in Consumer Engineering partner with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Frontend Engineers to build, experiment with, and scale features that power how hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage with Reddit. This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including: - **Core Product & Feeds:** Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Content Contribution - **Community & Presence:** Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools - **Growth & Engagement:** Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding - **Monetization & Conversion:** Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization - **Identity & Security:** Account Management, Trust & Safety ## What You’ll Do - **Cross-Functional Product Architecture:** Partner with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions. - **End-to-End Delivery:** Own the full software lifecycle for major product initiatives—from technical design docs and API contracts to development, testing, rollout, and observability. - **Metrics & Experimentation-Led Engineering:** Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments. Use tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to analyze user behavior, conversion funnels, and retention loops. - **API & System Performance:** Build and maintain scalable APIs (GraphQL, REST, gRPC) and distributed backend services optimized for client consumption and consumer UI performance. - **Technical Rigor & Modern Tooling:** Establish engineering best practices, improve developer workflows, mentor teammates, and use modern AI-integrated tools to ship high-quality products efficiently. ## Who You Are - **User-Centric Mindset:** You care deeply about *why* a feature is being built and its impact on end users. - **Data-Informed & Hypothesis-Driven:** Comfortable working with Data Scientists and PMs to design experiments, define performance metrics, and iterate quickly. - **Technical Rigor at Scale:** 5+ years of hands-on backend development experience building and operating large-scale distributed serving systems in high-concurrency environments. - **Bias for Action:** Self-directed and comfortable navigating ambiguity while balancing velocity with system reliability. - **Collaborative Communicator:** Strong communication skills and experience driving cross-functional alignment in fully remote or hybrid teams. ## Technical Qualifications - 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front-end focused languages: **JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6** - Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as **Lit, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular**, with **CSS** experience - Experience with **GraphQL, REST, HTTP** (Thrift basics a plus) and ability to design/implement maintainable APIs - Modern workflows: interest in **AI-assisted engineering tools** to
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