3 hours ago
Base Salary
$190k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement frontend and backend solutions for Reddit’s web media player and its supporting APIs.
- Contribute to the full development lifecycle, including technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
- Collaborate with product, design, client engineering, and platform engineering teams to deliver media features and improve global performance.
- Review code and design documents, provide feedback on product specifications and mocks, and establish developer workflow best practices.
- Mentor junior engineers and help grow their technical expertise.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least five years of hands-on professional software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including Go, Python, Ruby, Java, or C++.
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript, React, Next.js, and TypeScript, including translating complex UI/UX designs into scalable web applications.
- Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, and basic Thrift.
- Strong organizational, prioritization, delivery, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred familiarity with HTTP Live Streaming, MPEG-DASH, MP4, H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1, background data fetching, and media streaming metrics such as QoE and buffering rates.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, caregiving, family planning, gender-affirming care, and mental health and coaching.
- Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
- Fully remote collaboration environment.
- U.S.-based employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance and other applicable benefits.
Tech Stack
About Reddit
Reddit is the heart of the internet, where millions of people get together to talk about any topic imaginable. Share, vote, and decide what matters in everything from breaking news, to fandoms, lifehacks, gaming, sports, health, and the internet’s cutest animals. With over 100,000 subreddit communities about every topic you could think of (and thousands more you couldn’t), whatever it is, there’s a place for you on Reddit. Interested in joining our growing team? Check out redditinc.com/careers.