3 months ago
Base Salary
$233k - $326k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the organization-wide client architecture strategy for video creation, editing, and uploading in shared composers.
- Establish patterns for integrating future contribution formats into the client layer.
- Build and scale new contribution formats within shared post and comment experiences.
- Translate product requirements into technical roadmaps and drive alignment across Web, iOS, and Android.
- Serve as the technical anchor for the Contribution engineering team and influence the broader Content Ecosystem organization.
- Use AI-assisted development tools for prototyping, system design, and coding while validating and owning final outputs.
- Lead performant client infrastructure for rich-text rendering, edge-optimized media uploads, and offline/online state synchronization.
- Optimize the contribution funnel by reducing client-side friction and improving global contribution success rates.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership without directly managing the engineering team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven experience as a Senior Staff Engineer or Principal Engineer on consumer-facing mobile or web client applications.
- Deep expertise in modern web architecture, including React, TypeScript, and advanced state management.
- Strong architectural command of native mobile paradigms, including iOS/Swift and Android/Kotlin.
- Experience solving client-side performance and rendering bottlenecks at scale.
- Experience building interactive features such as rich-text editors, asynchronous media processing pipelines, or real-time state synchronization systems.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence VP-level technical direction.
- Ability to lead large cross-functional engineering initiatives and balance technical excellence with growth objectives.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs
- 401(k) with employer match
- Global benefits covering workspace, professional development, and caregiving support
- Family planning support
- Gender-affirming care
- Mental health and coaching benefits
- Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off
- Generous paid parental leave
- Interview recording, transcription, and AI summarization may be used, with an option to opt out
- U.S. base salary range of $232,500–$325,500, plus potential equity and commission
Tech Stack
Categories
FrontendMobile
About Reddit
Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.