Join Reddit as a Senior Frontend Engineer to enhance community-building products in a fast-paced environment.
Skills & Technologies
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Requirements
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Frontend Engineer at Reddit will focus on designing and developing user-facing features that enhance the community-building experience. Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern front-end frameworks like React or Vue is essential, along with a solid understanding of API design. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in software development who thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy tackling complex challenges. The Community Builders team is dedicated to creating engaging and low-effort experiences for users, making this a pivotal role in Reddit's mission.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday on Joblaze — tracked directly from Reddit's career page.
- Reddit has 161 other open roles including Event Marketing Lead , Usability Rapid Researcher (Contract), Client Partner, Mid-Market (B2B Services Acquisitions).
- 501 active TypeScript roles on Joblaze right now.
- 500 active JavaScript roles on Joblaze right now.
- 443 active React roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Frontend (median ~$192,000).
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $190,000–$267,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 6 years of relevant experience for this Senior Frontend Engineer, Community Builders role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: TypeScript, GraphQL, Lit, JavaScript, Polymer, React.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Frontend Engineer, Community Builders role at Reddit.
From the original posting
The Community Builders organization’s mission lies at the core of Reddit's success as a platform. Our vision is for Reddit to be the best place to start and grow a community, where everyone can help build a space to connect with others. Our goal is to bridge the gap from a user's initial intent to a thriving community. We focus on creating joyful, low-effort, and modern experiences, ensuring that community building feels energizing rather than taxing. By offering opinionated, actionable guidance, we empower builders to successfully navigate the journey of their subreddit's life.
We are seeking a talented Frontend Engineer to join our team. You'll be a key contributor to building and enhancing our products, developing features from end to end, and ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, and serve community builder needs. This role requires a passion for tackling complex challenges in a fast paced nimble environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, develop, and maintain user facing product features while ensuring performance, security, and scalability of our systems.
- Work collaboratively with product managers, designers, data scientists and other engineers to deliver high-quality products.
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
- Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
- Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.
Who you might be:
- A Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative or computer science-related field, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front end focused programming languages; Javascript, Typescript, ES6
- Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS.
- Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.
- Ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects, from initial design to deployment and maintenance.
- A passion for learning and adapting to new technologies.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and can easily navigate failure.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
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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.
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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.