Senior Backend Engineer, Growth Onboarding

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote (with potential for onsite visits near Reddit offices)
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

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.

The Growth - Onboarding Engineering team sits at the intersection of engineering and product, focused on driving user growth, engagement, and retention across Reddit. We own the onboarding experience that connects users to authentic conversations on the platform – starting from their first logged-in session. Think personalized recommendations, onboarding flows, sign up and authentication, user education and A/B testing at scale – we're the engine behind the numbers. As a Senior Engineer on this team, you're not just building—you're shaping the architecture and strategic direction. We're a team with a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and a deep commitment to data-informed decision making. We highly value autonomy and encourage engineers to take initiative and drive impactful projects from start to finish.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with recent experience in a Senior role
• Project Execution: Experience executing on large scale projects from 0 to 1
• Architectural Experience: Demonstrated ability to design and implement complex architectures, making key technology decisions.

Responsibilities

• Execution: Write clean, well tested, maintainable code that adheres to best practices.
• Drive Strategic Initiatives: Proactively identify and champion strategic engineering initiatives to improve growth infrastructure and processes.
• Experimentation Advocate: Work closely with Product, Data Science, and other teams on Growth to define, design, and implement impactful experiments. Champion best practices in experimentation methodology.
• Data-Driven Optimization: Leverage data to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization across the user lifecycle. You'll be analyzing metrics, identifying trends, and collaborating to implement solutions.
• Collaboration & Innovation: Participate in design reviews, contribute to architectural decisions, and actively seek opportunities to improve our processes and tooling.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Company Information

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. For more information, visit redditinc.com.