Engineering Manger, Developer Platform

About the job Engineering Manger, Developer Platform
Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, theres a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visitredditinc.com .

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role iscompletely remote friendly and will continue to be. We do have some Reddit offices and if you are near one you are welcome to go.

Reddit is a platform that both celebrates and benefits from our users creativity, and were working on a new canvas for external developers to paint with. Tens of thousands of external developers are already building against our API, but we can do so much more.

The Developer Platform teams goal is to allow external developer communities to find and install plugins that completely customize & transform members experiences and interactions. Everythings on the table, including comment sorting, custom post types, and more. Many communities may become immersive, game-like experiences.

Theres many low-hanging fruit: r/photoshopbattles should have an image gallery, so you dont have to click your way down the comments. r/nba should have live-updating scores. Meme generators should be everywhere. r/wallstreetbets should have stock tickers. Comments should rank people you interact with higher. Subreddits should be easy to theme.

But theres also opportunities for exploration and weirdness. What does reddit-style fantasy football look like? Did you lose The Game?

This vision takes everyone on Reddit working together. The Developer Platform team will be building core platform capabilities that will allow us to reach for this vision.

What Were Working On

Building multi-tenant APIs for storage, pubsub, schedulers, and orchestration.

Evolving Reddits public API and capabilities towards a cleaner, elegant Developer Experience.

Building the technical foundation for future features and experiences.

Building a platform that is highly available, low on latency, and at internet scale.

What We Can Expect From You

7+ years of industry experience, preferably in external developer tools, customizable app integrations, plugin features and more!

2+ years of experience managing engineering teams

Youre highly technical, enough to solve almost any problem your team has yourself, but you prefer to guide your team into solving them.

Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that people love.

Entrepreneurial spirit. On our team, everyone needs to act like a startup CEO. You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.

Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities:

Build and manage a team of 7-10 engineers, hiring top-notch individual contributors and giving them room to shine.

Be a strong mentor and cross-functional advocate for your team.

Understand team, product, engineering, and company dynamics enough to keep your team focused and effective under a wide variety of conditions.

Teach your team to make steady progress solving difficult problems.

Contribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future. Dont just come along for the ride.

Bonus Points:

Experience in influencing the larger organizations on technical direction/best practices.

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit .

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

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