Backend Engineer - Ranking Foundation

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With ,+ active communities and approximately M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

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The Ranking Foundation team’s mission is to help users find what they’re looking for every time they come to Reddit, and that aligns with their intents, interests. The team works with the billions of events and terabytes of data generated every day to personalize Reddit posts and comments for each user on the platform, helping them connect and engage with their communities while discovering the best of Reddit.

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, 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 junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.

Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Who You Might Be:

BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++)

Experienced with Graph

QL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs

A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems

Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule

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

Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

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Workspace benefits for your home office

Personal & Professional development funds

Family Planning Support

Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days

+ months paid Parental Leave

Paid Volunteer time off