Reddit

FullstackSoftwareEngineer,NotificationsLifecycle

$164–229k San Francisco, California, United States; New York City, New York, United States; Chicago, Illinois, United States Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Fullstack Software Engineer, Notifications Lifecycle at Reddit. Skills: Full stack, Notifications system, Backend services, Frontend features. Design backend services. Develop backend services”

What You'll Achieve.

impact hundreds of millions of users; build the future of Reddit

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

resiliency; fault tolerance

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years software engineering experience, full stack web development experience, balance of experience across modern web technologies and backend service code, Quality, unit testing, automated testing, code with resiliency, fault tolerance, operational experience supporting live ops for websites

Nice to Have

experience building user facing features from design to finish, written/verbal communication, project leadership, engineering culture improvements, collaboration with cross-function outside of engineering

What You'll Do.

Design backend services

Develop backend services

Maintain backend services

Design frontend features

Develop frontend features

Maintain frontend features

Contribute to development cycle

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

work across the stack; work with cross-functional teams; work collaboratively with product managers; work with designers; work with data scientists; work with other engineers

Full Job Description

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 www.redditinc.com. 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! 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. Designing, developing, and maintaining backend services that handle notifications and emails while ensuring the performance, security, and scalability of our systems. Designing, developing, and maintaining high quality, performant frontend features. 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. Working collaboratively with product managers, designers, data scientists and other engineers to deliver high-quality products. Contributing to the infrastructure that supports all of the above Technologies we use Our teams leverage a diverse and modern technology stack. While specific technologies may vary by team, we generally work with: Languages: Go, Pytho

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