Backend Engineer, Business Experience

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It's home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

The Business Experience team's mission is to empower brands, organizations and professionals to create engaging content for our communities while growing their presence on Reddit. This is a high impact role where you will be involved in technical & product strategy on a brand new product. You'll have a chance to get in on the ground floor of a new product space with a 100M+ revenue opportunity.

As a Backend Engineer in the Business Experience team, you will:

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
• Review code and design docs, give 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 junior engineers.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

The ideal candidate will have:

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++)
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
• A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule
• Entrepreneurial spirit, self-direction, innovation, and bias towards action in fast-paced environments
• Excellent communication skills, able to partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

Join Reddit and be part of building "the front page of the internet," bringing over 500 million people each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.