Engineering Manager - Commenting Experience

The Commenting Experience team is responsible for one of the highest traffic pages on the platform: the Comments page. We know that conversations are the lifeblood of Reddit, so we strive to ensure the comment contribution experience is intuitive and delightful for all users. 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.

This role can be remote within the United States or Canada, or can be a hybrid model if near an office. Offices are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Toronto. 

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 and exposure to tools like GA, BigQuery etc.

• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; e.g. Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++

• 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:

• Annual Personal & Professional development funds

• Comprehensive Health benefits

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• 401k Matching

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Monthly Global Wellness Days

• 4+ months paid Parental Leave  

• Paid Volunteer time off