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iOS Software Engineer III, Commenting Experience

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Reddit

Job Description

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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Conversation Experiences 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 viewing content and the surrounding conversation is appealing, intuitive and delightful. 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 100% remote within Canada. If you are located near our office in Toronto, you’re welcome to work a hybrid schedule there as well!

What You’ll Do:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Participate with 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.
  • Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Minimum Candidate Qualifications for this role:

  • Minimum of 3+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift.
  • Expertise in Swift and Objective-C
  • Familiarity with software engineering best practices such as unit/integration/end-to-end testing, design documents, CI/CD, A/B testing, code reviews, and documentation
  • Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
  • Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical, professional, hands-on experience.
  • You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation.
  • Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Java, Python, Go, Rust, C++.
  • Additional knowledge around GraphQL, REST, HTTP basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs is a plus.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Health Benefits
  • Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

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 you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.

Advice from our career coach

A successful applicant for this role at Reddit should know that they will be part of a team responsible for managing the Comments page, one of the highest traffic pages on the platform. To stand out as an applicant, you should focus on your ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to full development cycles, and continuously learn and improve your technical abilities. Here are some specific tips to help you stand out:

  • Highlight your experience developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale using Swift.
  • Showcase your expertise in Swift and Objective-C.
  • Demonstrate your familiarity with software engineering best practices such as testing, CI/CD, A/B testing, and code reviews.
  • Emphasize your organizational skills, ability to prioritize tasks, and keep projects on schedule.
  • Highlight your excellent communication skills, especially in remote environments and with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Show that you have a degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with practical hands-on experience.
  • Express your passion for building new things, thriving in ambiguity, and caring about innovation.
  • Highlight any additional software development experience in general-purpose programming languages and knowledge of GraphQL, REST, HTTP basics, and API design.

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