Fullstack Software Engineer, Notifications Lifecycle

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. You’ll be writing design docs and code, and get valuable feedback on your work.
• 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

Our teams leverage a diverse and modern technology stack. While specific technologies may vary by team, we generally work with:

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

What We are Looking For:

• 3+ years software engineering experience, and expect experience building user facing features from design to finish:
• We are looking for someone with full stack web development experience, with a balance of experience across modern web technologies and backend service code
• We are language agnostic when hiring but use primarily Typescript in the frontend, and GraphQL, golang, python in the backend stack.
• A past track record of Quality, for example:
• Familiarity with unit testing and other automated testing. 
• Ability to code with resiliency and fault tolerance in mind
• Has operational experience supporting live ops for websites
• Collaboration skills: you work well with a team
• You may demonstrate skills in one or more of the following: written/verbal communication, project leadership, engineering culture improvements, collaboration with cross-function outside of engineering.
• You embody our company value of Evolve: you view challenges as learning opportunities and continuously seek 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