Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Home Experience

- Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to build novel products and features that our users will love.

- Work alongside a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.

- Own the full development cycle for major projects: design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You'll be writing and reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks, and ensuring successful delivery of these key projects.

- You will be a key driver in the planning, development, and implementation of critical projects across Reddit's web architecture, working alongside backend and other client engineers.

- Enable a culture of metrics led execution, with a focus on operational excellence and system observability.

- Partner with leadership and cross-functional partners to develop the right roadmap that best achieves our product and engineering goals.

- 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front end focused programming languages; Javascript, Typescript, ES6

- Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS.

- Strong organizational skills, the ability to breakdown and prioritize tasks for yourself and others while keeping projects on schedule.

- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

- Strong focus on user experience and usability. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people think and how they interact with software. Experience with social is a huge plus.

- Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity.

- Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

- Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.

- Understanding of large scale web applications, considerations and techniques to accommodate high RPS, complex pages is a major plus.