Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering at Reddit

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Reddit is hiring a senior frontend software engineer, consumer engineering focused on consumer-facing frontend software.

Reddit

Location: Remote
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React

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Role overview

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

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 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, Content 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

Responsibilities

Design, build or advise on systems for consumer-facing frontend software.
Collaborate with product, engineering, customer and business stakeholders.
Improve reliability, usability, testing, automation and documentation.
Translate complex requirements into maintainable technical solutions.

Qualifications

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.
Modern Workflows: Experience or interest in using AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development workflows.

Technology in this role

JavaScript: JavaScript TypeScript React .
TypeScript: JavaScript TypeScript React .
React: JavaScript TypeScript React .
Angular: JavaScript TypeScript React .
GraphQL: 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 .
gRPC: • API & System Performance: Build and maintain scalable APIs (GraphQL, REST, gRPC) and distributed backend services optimized for client consumption and consumer UI .
Android: • Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical .
iOS: • Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical .
BigQuery: Work with tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to analyze user behavior, conversion funnels, and retention loops to make data-backed engineering .

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
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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About Reddit

The Deployment Infrastructure team is hiring a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of the web UI for our build and deployment platform. In this role, you’ll craft a cohesive, intuitive user experience that enables engineers across Reddit to build, test, and ship software safely and confidently to a globally distributed cloud ecosystem.

Our team owns continuous integration, continuous deployment, and the underlying systems that power build and deployment workflows. We’re looking for an engineer who operates at the intersection of frontend engineering, distributed systems and infrastructure, and developer experience.

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

Design, build, and ship high-quality features across the stack, with a focus on creating reusable, maintainable UI components and polished frontends that scale with the platform

Contribute to backend systems to deliver cohesive, end-to-end product experiences

Define and enforce clean API boundaries between frontend and backend systems

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