iOS Software Engineer, Contributions

Role Description

The Contributions team is responsible for two of the most important actions on the platform: Posting and Commenting. We know that conversations are the lifeblood of Reddit, so we strive to ensure the content and the surrounding conversation is simple, expressive, intelligent, and modern. This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

This role can be 100% remote within the United States or Canada. If you are located near an office, you’re welcome to work a hybrid schedule as well!

What You’ll Do:

• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner 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, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Participate with 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.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift.
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices such as unit/integration/end-to-end testing, design documents, CI/CD, A/B testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical, professional, hands-on experience.
• You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation.
• Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Swift (expertise required), Java, Python, Go, Rust, C++.
• Additional knowledge around GraphQL, REST, basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs is a plus.

Benefits

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support.
• Family Planning Support.
• Gender-Affirming Care.
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits.
• Comprehensive Medical Benefits & Health Care Spending Account.
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan with matching contributions.
• Income Replacement Programs.
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off.
• Generous Paid Parental Leave.