Backend Engineer, Top of Funnel

The Top of Funnel team is key to user growth. By combining our knowledge of search engines, with an eye for the best user experiences we have the opportunity to introduce Reddit to new and unfamiliar users and transform them into deeply engaged users.

We're looking for a backend engineer who is comfortable taking on the end-to-end delivery & technical leadership of complex services.

Location:

Reddit has a flexible first workforce! if you happen to live close to our physical office location 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 from the UK, Ireland or the Netherlands.

What You'll Do:

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You'll be reviewing code and design docs, and giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Foster a data-driven culture within the team by running experiments, discovering insights, and generating ideas to optimize our systems.
• Take accountability for the delivery of projects, be a hands-on engineer, and deliver solid and maintainable code.
• Bring ideas, and directly influence the team's roadmap, collaborating closely with XFN stakeholders.

What We Are Looking For:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, with experience in working cross-functionally to lead projects from start to finish with end-user impact.
• We are language agnostic when hiring but use primarily Golang and Python in the backend stack.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• 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 and even failure.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge in data engineering including design, development and implementation of complex systems and data pipelines.
• Experience working with data streaming/batch solutions such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, Storm, or others.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySql, Postgres, Teradata, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, HBase, etc.)

Benefits:

• Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match
• Private Medical and Dental Scheme
• Income Replacement Programs
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Bike to Work scheme
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off