Fullstack Software Engineer, Notifications Lifecycle

<div class="content-intro"><div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text"> <div class="c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text" data-qa="message-text"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first"> <div class="p-rich_text_block"> <div class="p-rich_text_section">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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit <a class="c-link" href="http://www.redditinc.com/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://redditinc.com" data-sk="tooltip_parent">www.redditinc.com</a>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p>As a full-stack engineer on the Notifications team, you’ll design, build and scale products within our notifications system, with a focus on the end user experience. You’ll have an opportunity to work across the stack and with cross-functional teams such as Product, Machine Learning and Data Science. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!</p> <p>Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence.</p> <ul> <li>Designing, developing, and maintaining backend services that handle notifications and emails while ensuring the performance, security, and scalability of our systems.</li> <li>Designing, developing, and maintaining high quality, performant frontend features.</li> <li>Contributing to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be writing design docs and code, and get valuable feedback on your work.</li> <li>Working collaboratively with product managers, designers, data scientists and other engineers to deliver high-quality products.</li> <li>Contributing to the infrastructure that supports all of the above</li> </ul> <p><strong>Technologies we use</strong></p> <p>Our teams leverage a diverse and modern technology stack. While specific technologies may vary by team, we generally work with:</p> <ul> <li>Languages: Go, Python, Typescript, GQL</li> <li>Frameworks: Spark, Kafka, Airflow</li> <li>Datastores: BigQuery, Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL</li> <li>Tools: Kubernetes, Docker</li> </ul> <p><strong>What We are Looking For:</strong></p> <ul> <li>3+ years software engineering experience, and expect experience building user facing features from design to finish:</li> <ul> <li>We are looking for someone with full stack web development experience, with a balance of experience across modern web technologies and backend service code</li> <li>We are language agnostic when hiring but use primarily Typescript in the frontend, and GraphQL, golang, python in the backend stack.</li> </ul> <li>A past track record of<strong> Quality</strong>, for example:</li> <ul> <li>Familiarity with unit testing and other automated testing.&nbsp;</li> <li>Ability to code with resiliency and fault tolerance in mind</li> <li>Has operational experience supporting live ops for websites</li> </ul> <li><strong>Collaboration skills</strong>: you work well with a team</li> <ul> <li>You may demonstrate skills in one or more of the following: written/verbal communication, project leadership, engineering culture improvements, collaboration with cross-function outside of engineering.</li> </ul> <li>You embody our company value of <strong>Evolve: </strong>you view challenges as learning opportunities and continuously seek to improve.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>Benefits:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs</li> <li>401k with Employer Match</li> <li>Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support</li> <li>Family Planning Support</li> <li>Gender-Affirming Care</li> <li>Mental Health &amp; Coaching Benefits</li> <li>Flexible Vacation &amp; Paid Volunteer Time Off</li> <li>Generous Paid Parental Leave&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>Pay Transparency:</strong></p> <p>This job posting may span more than one career level.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://www.redditinc.com/careers/" target="_blank">https://www.redditinc.com/careers/</a>.</p> <p>To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.</p></div><div class="title">The base salary range for this position is:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$164,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$229,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>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.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.&nbsp; We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.&nbsp; We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.&nbsp; For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our <a href="https://redditinc.com/policies/candidate-privacy-policy">Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors</a>.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.&nbsp; 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.</span></em></p></div>