Senior Frontend Engineer, Reddit Chat (Contract)

Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, with over 100,000 active communities and over 70 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Chat team is part of the X division at Reddit and is among the most innovative and forward-looking teams at the company. Communities on Reddit have a need to provide synchronous conversations with immediate feedback, but that need is not clearly met on today’s platform. Our goal is to build a solution that becomes a core part of Reddit’s present and future.

Building this future requires a careful balance of engineering, product, design, and business. It’s a matter of creating the right user experience, and that’s where you come in. We’re looking for strong frontend engineers who can work at the intersection of these problems, quickly build new products, and advocate for our users throughout the whole process.

What We Can Expect From You

• 5+ years of experience in web application development using JavaScript, TypeScript, or other relevant language.
• Experience with NodeJS and one or more front-end web frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, or Lit.
• Deep experience with a modern web stack, whether it's JavaScript bundlers, React internals, Lit components, etc. You've debugged it, you've improved it, you can imagine doing it better.
• Expert with software engineering best practices such as unit testing, code reviews, design, and documentation.
• Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves people’s lives globally.

Responsibilities:

• Build new features and products into the Reddit web app using modern frontend tools (TypeScript, Lit, GraphQL).
• Partner across product, design, and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions to complex challenges.
• Build, and maintain feature systems spanning web and backend services.
• Participate in the full development cycle: technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, and giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with Lit
• Holistic understanding of software systems - able to collaborate with backend and native mobile engineers to write design docs and design effective APIs
• Experience building accessible features
• Experience building web applications that work seamlessly and performantly in mobile browsers
• Experience building complex animations and transitions to make delightful UIs

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