Join Reddit as a Senior iOS Engineer to architect high-performance media experiences for millions of users.
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior iOS Engineer will focus on architecting a modular video player for Reddit's iOS platform, enhancing user engagement through high-performance media experiences. Proficiency in Swift and experience with scalable mobile applications are essential, along with strong collaboration skills to work cross-functionally with product and design teams. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a background in media solutions who thrive in fast-paced environments and are eager to drive innovation within a dynamic team.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 14 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Reddit's career page.
- Reddit has 196 other open roles including Senior Product Adoption Strategist, Shopping, Senior Product Manager, GTM Automation, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ML Efficiency.
- 43 active Swift roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Mobile roles (median ~$193,400).
- Pays more than 79% of the 28 salaried Swift roles we track (median $157,000).
Quick facts
- Is the Senior iOS Engineer, Media Foundations role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $190,000–$267,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior iOS Engineer, Media Foundations role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Swift.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior iOS Engineer, Media Foundations role at Reddit.
From the original posting
Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
The Media Foundation’s mission is simple: Delivering seamless, high-performance media experiences that meet and exceed industry standards, ensuring unparalleled engagement across all platforms at Reddit. Media is the most engaging medium on Reddit, whether it’s for posts, comments, or ads. This is a pivotal role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit's media experience across all devices. We are seeking a stellar engineer with a deep understanding of scalable media solutions who can drive innovation, deliver top-tier video experiences to our users, and guide other teams in seamlessly integrating with our video API. This role not only involves building robust media capabilities but also contributing to the growth and strength of our media engineering team as Reddit continues to scale.
This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.
What You Will Do
- Architect a highly modular, easy-to-integrate iOS video player that enables other teams to build features effortlessly while delivering first-class performance for users.
- Partner with backend media infrastructure and CDN teams to optimize global delivery and performance.
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel media products and features that our users will love.
- Work with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. 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.
- Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgement to validate and own the final outputs.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent technical expertise
- 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
- Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- A track record of leading projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
- 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 even failure.
Nice To Have
- Knowledge of AVFoundation for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities.
- Familiarity with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, and other streaming protocols, as well as working knowledge of streaming frameworks and CDN integration for optimized video delivery.
- Hands-on experience optimizing video player performance or building feature-rich products on top of core media playback components.
- A proven track record of using data and performance metrics to relentlessly optimize apps, moving the needle from "good" to "world-class" user experiences.
- Experience building robust, clean, and scalable APIs/components designed to be easily consumed by other internal engineering teams.
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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