The Subreddit Success team is responsible for helping build and activate more successful communities. Our goal is to ensure that community founders have the right tools at the right time and understand exactly what they need to do to help create and grow their new communities. We also maintain features related to the Subreddit page and care deeply about maintaining and improving the features that shape communities’ individuality. 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.
This role can be 100% remote within Canada. If you are located near our office in Toronto, you’re welcome to work a hybrid schedule there as well!
What You’ll Do:
- Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
- 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.
- Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
- Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.
Minimum Candidate Qualifications for this role:
- Minimum of 3+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift.
- Expertise in Swift and Objective-C
- Familiarity with software engineering best practices such as unit/integration/end-to-end testing, design documents, CI/CD, A/B testing, code reviews, and documentation
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep 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.
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical, professional, hands-on experience.
- You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation.
- Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Java, Python, Go, Rust, C++.
- Additional knowledge around GraphQL, REST, HTTP basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs is a plus.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Health benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
