Senior Frontend Engineer, Community Builders

Reddit

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$190,000–$267,000 / yr
Posted
107 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $203k
This role $228k
$155k most similar roles pay here $279k

This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $170,962–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $228k versus about $203k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Reddit

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.

Reddit currently has 77 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $217,000–$303,400 across 77 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Frontend Engineer, Community Builders

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Community Builders team, you will play a vital role in creating joyful, low-effort experiences that help users grow and manage their communities. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining user-facing product features while ensuring system performance, security, and scalability. Your daily work involves collaborating with product managers, designers, and data scientists across the full development cycle, including technical design, code reviews, and experimentation. To succeed in this role, you must possess over six years of experience with front-end languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, and ES6, along with proficiency in frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular and CSS. Additional expertise in GraphQL, REST, HTTP, and Thrift is preferred to help build maintainable APIs for the platform's community tools.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and maintain user-facing product features while ensuring system performance, security, and scalability.
  • Execute the full development cycle including technical design, coding, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
  • Review code and design documents to provide feedback on product specifications and mocks.
  • Define standards to improve developer workflows and recommend best practices for the team.
  • Coach and mentor other engineers to support their professional development.
  • Take end-to-end ownership of projects from initial design through deployment and maintenance.

What we're looking for

  • A Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative or computer science-related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of software development experience in front-end focused programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, and ES6.
  • Experience with front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular and CSS.
  • Ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects from initial design to deployment and maintenance.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs (preferred).

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