Build and evolve user-facing iOS experiences for Reddit's community of communities.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 7 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 7 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Build user-facing iOS experiences
- Lead projects through the development lifecycle
- Partner with cross-functional teams
- Improve iOS architecture and performance
- Mentor teammates
Must have
- Professional experience developing native iOS applications with Swift
- Strong understanding of iOS frameworks and application architecture
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AVFoundation
- Experience with experimentation and analytics
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The iOS Software Engineer at Reddit focuses on developing and enhancing user-facing iOS applications that facilitate content discovery and community engagement. This role requires proficiency in Swift and a solid grasp of iOS frameworks, alongside experience in building scalable features and optimizing performance. Ideal candidates are seasoned engineers who can navigate ambiguity, communicate effectively across teams, and connect technical choices to user outcomes. The position is part of a collaborative environment that emphasizes experimentation and continuous improvement.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 4, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 4, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Mobile roles (median ~$190,000).
- Starts above 73% of 11 comparable mid mobile roles in United States we track (median $157,000 across 5 companies).
Quick facts
- Is the iOS Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $164,000–$229,000 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Swift.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this iOS Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering role at Reddit.
From the original posting
The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Product Backend Engineers in Consumer Engineering partner directly 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, 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
- Build and evolve user-facing iOS experiences that help people discover, consume, create, and engage with content and communities.
- Lead projects through the full development lifecycle, from product definition and technical design to implementation, experimentation, launch, and ongoing improvement.
- Partner with product, design, data science, ML, backend, and platform teams to shape strategy, translate technical capabilities into intuitive experiences, and deliver measurable user impact.
- Improve iOS architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, developer workflows, and engineering standards while mentoring teammates and driving cross-functional technical initiatives.
Who You Might Be
- An experienced iOS engineer who has built and shipped consumer-facing native applications at scale using Swift.
- A strategic, product-minded partner who connects technical decisions to user and business outcomes and can lead through ambiguity.
- A clear and collaborative communicator who can explain complex tradeoffs, influence stakeholders, and build alignment across teams.
- A curious, adaptable, and ownership-oriented teammate who embraces experimentation, learns from setbacks, improves processes, and helps others succeed.
Technical Qualifications
- Professional experience developing native iOS applications with Swift and a strong understanding of iOS frameworks and application architecture.
- Ability to write idiomatic, readable, reusable, and testable code, with strong skills in debugging, performance optimization, reliability, and maintainability.
- Experience designing mobile systems and interfaces, evaluating architectural tradeoffs, and building scalable features from APIs through user-facing UI.
- Experience with experimentation, feature flags, instrumentation, analytics, and product or quality-of-experience metrics; familiarity with AVFoundation, VideoToolbox, HLS, media playback, recommendation systems, accessibility, or ML-integrated products is a plus.
Pay Transparency:
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.
Standard company text repeated across Reddit's postings is omitted here.
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