Fullstack Software Engineer, Notifications Lifecycle

Role Description

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.
• 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:

• Languages: Go, Python, Typescript, GQL
• Frameworks: Spark, Kafka, Airflow
• Datastores: BigQuery, Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL
• Tools: Kubernetes, Docker

Qualifications

• 3+ years software engineering experience, with experience building user facing features from design to finish.
• Full stack web development experience, with a balance of experience across modern web technologies and backend service code.
• Language agnostic but primarily use Typescript in the frontend, and GraphQL, Golang, Python in the backend stack.
• A past track record of quality, including familiarity with unit testing and other automated testing.
• Ability to code with resiliency and fault tolerance in mind.
• Operational experience supporting live ops for websites.
• Collaboration skills: ability to work well with a team.
• Demonstrated skills in one or more of the following: written/verbal communication, project leadership, engineering culture improvements, collaboration with cross-function outside of engineering.
• Embodiment of the company value of "Evolve": viewing challenges as learning opportunities and continuously seeking to improve.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• 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
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave