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# Software Engineer, Web Platform

- **Company:** reddit Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,800.0 - $267,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Code Review, Data Security, Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Web Development, Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP), Next.js, TypeScript, Web Platforms, ReactJS, Information Technology, Graphql, Restful APIs, Grpc, Automation Anywhere
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8303798

## About the Role

* Web Expertise: Strong proficiency in modern web stacks, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with a proven track record of translating complex problems into performant, scalable and safe responsive, production-grade applications.
 * Operational Health Excellence: Experience tracing, profiling and tuning performance of network calls, rendering, or data access paths, monitoring and reporting their operational health.
 * AI-First Workflows Expertise: Experience implementing AI workflows and tooling to support and accelerate high quality web development, optimization and debugging.
 * API & System Design: Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining robust APIs using protocols such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, HTTP, or Thrift basics.
 * Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

## Description

* Platform Minded Engineer: You empower engineers to deliver safe, scalable, and high-performance solutions by standardizing cross-organizational patterns, workflows, and tooling.
 * Pragmatic Builder: You strike the right balance between rapid iteration and architectural rigor, delivering scalable solutions without getting bogged down by unnecessary processes.
 * Effective Collaborator: You excel in communicating complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
 * Continuous Learner: You have a deep curiosity for emerging technologies and actively keep up with modern industry trends, standards, and performance optimizations., * Build with impact: Design and evolve the Shreddit web platform's architecture, performance, and developer tooling that powers reddit.com for hundreds of millions of users across the world.
 * Full-Lifecycle Development: Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-service initiatives in areas like asset delivery, html processing, observability and reliability for core web experiences.
 * Quality & Velocity: Move fast while maintaining high quality standards through thorough code reviews, detailed design doc evaluations, and constructive feedback on product specs and UI mocks.
 * Mentorship & Engineering Standards: Help establish developer workflows, champion best practices, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers to elevate technical excellence across the team.