Front End Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

Reddit

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Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$164,200–$229,900 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Similar $183k
This role $197k
$133k most similar roles pay here $240k

This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$214,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $197k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

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Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.

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TL;DR · Front End Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

As a Front End Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering, you will join a team building products that allow users to discover content and engage with communities. You will partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to translate user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions while owning the full software lifecycle from design docs to deployment. Your daily work involves designing A/B experiments, maintaining scalable APIs using GraphQL, REST, or gRPC, and optimizing distributed backend services for consumer UI performance. You will utilize a modern tech stack including JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6, CSS, and frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular. The role focuses on solving complex problems in content discovery, community presence, growth, monetization, and identity security to improve how millions of users navigate and interact with the platform.

What you'll do

  • Translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions through cross-functional collaboration.
  • Own the full software lifecycle from technical design and API contracts to testing and rollout.
  • Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments using data tools like BigQuery or Firebase.
  • Build and maintain scalable APIs and distributed backend services optimized for client performance.
  • Establish engineering best practices and improve developer workflows using modern, AI-integrated tools.
  • Analyze user behavior and conversion funnels to make data-backed engineering decisions.
  • Develop features that power content discovery, community engagement, and monetization for millions of users.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of hands-on backend development experience building and operating large-scale distributed serving systems in high-concurrency environments.
  • Proficiency in one or more front end focused programming languages including Javascript, Typescript, or ES6.
  • Experience with at least one front-end web framework such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular.
  • Experience with CSS.
  • Ability to build and maintain scalable APIs using GraphQL, REST, or gRPC.
  • Experience or interest in using AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development workflows (preferred).

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