Senior Backend Engineer, Safety

Reddit · Remote - United StatesRemotesenior

In short

▸Ingeniero backend sénior en Safety, construyendo herramientas para moderadores de comunidades en Reddit.
▸Día a día: diseñar APIs, liderar equipo, colaborar con producto/diseño y lanzar features críticos en una plataforma a escala mundial.
▸Destacado: impacto directo en la salud y seguridad de 130M+ usuarios diarios.

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What they ask for

✓5-8 años de experiencia en Go, Python, Rust o Ruby.
✓Experiencia comprobada en APIs (GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, Thrift).
✓Título en Ciencias de la Computación o experiencia equivalente.
✓Habilidades organizativas y capacidad de priorización.
✓Espíritu emprendedor y capacidad para actuar con autonomía en entornos ambiguos.
✓Capacidad para colaborar efectivamente en equipos remotos multidisciplinarios.

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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 Safety and Moderation organization builds the tools that help moderators keep Reddit safe, healthy, and scalable. Moderators are community leaders and tastemakers; our job is to give them fast, reliable, and intuitive tooling so they can focus on cultivating great communities. We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong hands-on experience in modern enterprise engineering languages, technologies, and practices to help us ship high-impact features and improvements for moderators. You’ll work closely with other frontend and mobile engineers, along with product and design partners in the Safety and Moderation organization. This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world. Responsibilities: • 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. • Lead a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development. • Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities. Required Qualifications: • 5-8 years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby. • Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs. • BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience. • 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. • Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment and the ability to discuss complex topics with technical and n

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