Senior Engineering Manager
Company: Reddit
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 24, 2024
Job Description:
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, with over 100,000
active communities and over 70 million daily active users, it is
home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
For more information, visit redditinc.com. The Core Experience
team's mission lies at the core of Reddit's success as a platform:
we build features that encourage engagement and belonging, enabling
better user experiences with rich content and video, enabling
smooth and effective content consumption with ML and personalized
experiences. We create tools for our moderators to nurture and grow
their communities and for all Reddit users to feel safe as they
contribute. This team drives several core product metrics for the
entire Reddit ecosystem. This role may be remote within the U.S. or
Canada, or a flexible hybrid model if near a Reddit office. As a
Senior Engineering Manager you will be responsible for leading your
team to deliver high quality software that enables the best
possible experiences for our users as you help communities on
Reddit evolve and grow. This is a high impact role where you will
be involved in technical & product strategy, operations,
architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the
world. How You'll have an Impact: - You will partner with a
multitude of stakeholders to understand Reddit's core experiences
across all of our product lines and will guide the design and
development of experiences that let users get the most out of
Reddit. You will be a key driver of the vision, owning and driving
the product and technical roadmaps for your team. You will drive a
culture of technical excellence ensuring the right bets are taken
with the highest quality. You will be accountable for building,
growing, and mentoring a world-class team of engineers to help
Reddit reach its goal of bringing community and belonging to
everyone. The Engineering Manager should be passionate about an
environment where technology is the key value driver for the
business while partnering closely with diverse stakeholders. The
right individual will be experienced in scaling large technology
teams and creating and delivering a great experience across a broad
user base. This individual will be a key driver in the planning,
development, and implementation of Reddit's composite service
architecture, and technology stack on the various platforms
including desktop, mobile, and native applications (iOS and
Android). What you'll do
- Lead a high-caliber team of product engineers and mobile
developers.
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other
engineering managers to plan product and business strategy, and to
build novel products and features that our half-billion users will
love.
- Participate in the full development cycle: design, development,
test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You'll be reviewing
code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks,
and generally helping out wherever is needed.
- Coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their
professional development. -
- Set and enable a culture of metrics led execution, with
efficient processes and strong levels of transparency. - What we're
looking for
- 2+ years building and managing high performing engineering
teams.
- 3+ years experience in one or more front end focussed
programming languages: Javascript, Typescript, ES6.
- 2+ years experience in mobile native applications and running
them at scale.
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer developing
user-facing applications at scale. What sets you ahead:
- Fluency with dealing with product analytics, forecasting and
exposure to tools like GA, BigQuery etc.
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose
programming languages; Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++
- Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics,
and the ability to design maintainable APIs.
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks
and keep projects on schedule.
- BS degree in Computer Science, 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 or e-commerce is a huge plus.
- Entrepreneurial spirit. On our team, we empower individuals to
drive decisions. 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
with teams in a fully remote environment, and discuss complex
topics with technical and non-technical audiences. Benefits:
-
- Comprehensive Health benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Days
Off
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off #LI-JD3 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 https://www.redditinc.com/careers/. 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. The base pay range for this
position is: $232,500-$325,500 USD Reddit is committed to providing
reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with
disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application
procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a
disability, please contact us at
ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.
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