Frontend Engineer III, Moderation Enforcement

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 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly within the United States. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City & Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.

The Moderation organization’s mission lies at the core of Reddit's success as a platform: we build features that enable moderators to create and grow meaningful, destination communities. Moderators are a key pillar of Reddit’s success, and act as community leaders and tastemakers, ensuring there’s something on Reddit for everyone. This team drives several core product metrics for the entire Reddit ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

Drive new features from end-to-end through prototyping, validation, implementation, launch, and continuous iteration.

Help craft a modern user experience for accessing content and communities on Reddit.

Contribute to a Reddit design system, a component library paired with UI best practices and tools for our design team to enable teams at Reddit to work faster and at a higher quality bar.  

Help build the technical foundation for future features and experiences.

Be part of a team that’s building a highly scalable, high quality, and low latency web platform at Reddit’s scale.

Partner and collaborate with partner teams to deliver high quality UI components 

Tackle tough design and product problems.

Work cross-functionally with design, product, and engineering to deliver great user experiences.

Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, and giving feedback on product specs and mocks.

Required Qualifications:

3+ years of experience in web application development using JavaScript, TypeScript, or other relevant language.

Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular

Experience with Web Components or LitElement is a huge plus, but not required.

Experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages (e.g. JavaScript, Typescript, Python, Java, Go, Scala).

Deep experience with a modern web stack, whether it's Javascript bundlers, React internals, etc.  You've debugged it, you've improved it, you can imagine doing it better.

Familiar with software engineering best practices such as unit testing, code reviews, design, and documentation.

Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves people’s lives globally.

Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep 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 collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

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

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 

#LI-SP1 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/ .

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The base salary range for this position is: $164,200 — $229,900 USD

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