Engineering Manager, Feeds Experience

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Hiring Remotely in United States
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217K-304K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
As an Engineering Manager at Reddit, you will lead a high-performing team, collaborate cross-functionally, ensure technical excellence, and enhance user experiences on the platform.
Summary Generated by Built In
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 116 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Feed Experiences team is responsible for one of the highest traffic pages on the platform: the Feed pages on the Reddit apps and website. We know that endless scrolling on the feed to find interesting content and Video experiences is the soul of Reddit, so we strive to ensure viewing content and the surrounding experiences are appealing, intuitive, and delightful. You’ll be working with the immense scale of hundreds of millions of users to help them explore Reddit and provide them with excellent feeds and media experiences on Reddit.

What You’ll Do:

  • Build and operate a high-caliber, inclusive team of engineers.
  • Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner 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.
  • Lead a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
  • 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.
  • Drive a culture of technical excellence ensuring the right bets are taken with the highest quality. 
  • You will be a key driver in the planning, development, and implementation across Reddit’s backend service architecture and our various client platforms, including native applications (iOS and Android) and Web.
  • Set and enable a culture of metrics led execution, with efficient processes and strong levels of transparency. 

Who You Might Be:

  • 2+ years building and managing high performing engineering teams.
  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing applications
  • Fluency working with product metrics, designing and analyzing experiments with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc.
  • Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; e.g. Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++
  • Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity
  • Experience working with ML engineering teams and integrating ML solutions
  • 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. You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity.
  • 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.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead with empathy and foster a supportive team environment

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
  • Generous paid Parental Leave  
  • Paid Volunteer time off

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:
$217,000$303,900 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Top Skills

BigQuery
C++
Firebase
Go
Hex
Java
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Swift
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,900 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Reddit is a community of millions of users engaging in the creation of content and the sharing of conversation across tens of thousands of topics. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.

Why Work With Us

At Reddit, you’ll help build something that encourages millions around the world to think more, do more, learn more, feel more– and maybe even laugh more.

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