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# Senior Frontend Engineer, Home Experience at Reddit

- **Company:** Reddit
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $191k–$267k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8198130

## 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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit [www.redditinc.com](http://www.redditinc.com/).

The Feeds Experience team is responsible for one of the highest traffic pages on the platform: the Feed pages on the Reddit apps and website. Feeds are both a destination and entrypoint for almost all Reddit journeys, and we know a smooth, intuitive, and delightful experience is critical to Reddit’s success and appeal. You’ll be working with the immense scale of hundreds of millions of users to help them explore Reddit and provide them with excellent feeds on Reddit.

What You’ll Do:

- Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to build novel products and features that our users will love.
- Work alongside 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.
- Own the full development cycle for major projects: design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be writing and reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks, and ensuring successful delivery of these key projects.
- You will be a key driver in the planning, development, and implementation of critical projects across Reddit’s web architecture, working alongside backend and other client engineers.
- Enable a culture of metrics led execution, with a focus on operational excellence and system observability.
- Partner with leadership and cross-functional partners to develop the right roadmap that best achieves our product and engineering goals.

Who You Might Be:

- 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front end focused programming languages; Javascript, Typescript, ES6
- Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS.
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to breakdown and prioritize tasks for yourself and others while keeping projects on schedule.
- BS degree in Computer Science, a 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 is a huge plus.
- 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.
- Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.
- Understanding of large scale web applications, considerations and techniques to accommodate high RPS, complex pages is a major plus.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is: $190,800—$267,100 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our [Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors](https://redditinc.com/policies/candidate-privacy-policy).

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, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

## About Reddit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Reddit is the heart of the internet, a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: RDDT, IPO March 2024)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2005
- **Founders**: Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian (original co-founders; Huffman remains CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Social Networking Platforms
- **Target customers**: B2C (users), B2B (advertisers, data licensing partners). Massive global consumer audience; advertisers range from SMB to enterprise.
- **Mission**: To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to everyone.

## Products & Services
- **Reddit Platform**: The core social network consisting of thousands of user-created subreddits. Users post, vote, comment, and build communities around any topic. Free to use.
- **Reddit Ads**: Self-serve and managed advertising solutions including display, video, and promoted posts. Key revenue driver.
- **Reddit Premium**: Subscription offering ad-free browsing, exclusive badges, and access to a private subreddit.
- **Reddit Public Access (API)**: Data feeds and APIs used by third-party developers, researchers, and increasingly for AI training data licensing.
- **KarmaLab**: Reddit’s in-house creative agency that helps brands create native content and campaigns.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded company; market cap fluctuates with stock price (specific figure not provided in search results). As of 2025 annual revenue of $2.2B, the company is valued in the tens of billions.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue: ~$2.2B (latest fiscal year). Daily Active Uniques: 127M (as of March 31, 2026). Weekly Active Uniques: 493M+.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company Advance Publications, Inc.; Tencent (led Series D); various institutional and retail investors post-IPO.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 21.2% YoY to 3,009 employees. Active job postings up 18.9% YoY. Revenue scaling rapidly as ad business grows toward $1B target. International expansion across 50+ countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique community-driven content**: User-generated, authentic, and highly engaged communities that are difficult to replicate. Over 100,000 active subreddits.
- **Data moat**: Massive archive of human conversations and knowledge (25B+ posts & comments) – increasingly valuable for AI training and research.
- **Brand recognition and cultural influence**: Reddit is a top-10 website globally, driving real-world impact (e.g., WallStreetBets, AMAs).
- **Moderator ecosystem**: Volunteer moderators curate high-quality content at scale, reducing content moderation costs while maintaining quality.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growing the advertising business**: Scaling ad revenue to $1B+ through improved ad products, self-serve tools, and international sales expansion.
- **AI and data licensing**: Monetizing Reddit’s unique content corpus through partnerships with AI companies (e.g., Google) and building AI-powered features.
- **International expansion**: Growing user base and ad sales in key markets (UK, Canada, Portugal, Netherlands, India, etc.).
- **Product innovation**: Investing in video, real-time features, and improving the user experience to retain and grow daily active users.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as fun, quirky, and authentic. Core values include “Reddit’s Mission First,” “Add Value,” “Play to Win,” “Evolve,” and “Default Open.”
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health benefits, flexible vacation & global days off, family planning funds, 4+ months paid parental leave, personal & professional development funds, workspace/home office benefits.
- **Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)**: Active ERGs including Ability, Allyship, Black People Reddit (BPR), Kaleidoscope, LGBTQ Snoo, OLE, RAN, Trans@Reddit, Women Eng, Women in Product, Women of Reddit.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office policy not explicitly stated in search results; many roles are likely based in San Francisco or other offices (NYC, Toronto, etc.). Engineering culture emphasizes autonomy, impact, and building products used by millions.
- **Career growth**: Rapid headcount growth and promotion opportunities; strong alumni network (Meta, Google, Amazon, etc.). Employee rating 3.8/5 on LinkedIn (compensation 4.1, culture 3.2, career 3.2).

## Sources
1. [redditinc.com](https://redditinc.com/careers) – Careers page with mission, values, benefits, ERGs, departments.
2. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit) – Current job openings.
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/reddit-com) – Company profile with financials, headcount, revenue, funding, employee data.
4. [investor.redditinc.com](https://investor.redditinc.com/overview/default.aspx) – Investor relations with key metrics (DAU, WAU, communities).
5. [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000171344526000062/redditinc10-k2025.pdf) – 2025 Form 10-K with corporate info, employee count, values, risk factors.

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