Senior Backend Engineer, Growth Onboarding
Job Summary
The role involves developing and maintaining the onboarding experience for Reddit users, focusing on personalization, sign-up, authentication, and data-driven optimization. Candidates should have at least 5 years of software engineering experience with a strong background in backend development, architecture, and experimentation platforms. The position emphasizes ownership, collaboration across teams, and technical leadership to improve growth infrastructure and user engagement. It offers a flexible work environment and a comprehensive benefits package to support employee well-being and professional growth.
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Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence.
The Growth - Onboarding Engineering team sits at the intersection of engineering and product, focused on driving user growth, engagement, and retention across Reddit. We own the onboarding experience that connects users to authentic conversations on the platform – starting from their first logged-in session. Think personalized recommendations, onboarding flows, sign up and authentication, user education and A/B testing at scale – we're the engine behind the numbers. As a Senior Engineer on this team, you're not just building—you're shaping the architecture and strategic direction. We're a team with a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and a deep commitment to data-informed decision making. We highly value autonomy and encourage engineers to take initiative and drive impactful projects from start to finish.
As a Senior Backend engineer on the Growth - Onboarding team, you will:
Responsibilities:
- Execution: Write clean, well tested, maintainable code that adheres to best practices.
- Drive Strategic Initiatives: Proactively identify and champion strategic engineering initiatives to improve growth infrastructure and processes.
- Experimentation Advocate: Work closely with Product, Data Science, and other teams on Growth to define, design, and implement impactful experiments. Champion best practices in experimentation methodology.
- Data-Driven Optimization: Leverage data to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization across the user lifecycle. You'll be analyzing metrics, identifying trends, and collaborating to implement solutions.
- Collaboration & Innovation: Participate in design reviews, contribute to architectural decisions, and actively seek opportunities to improve our processes and tooling.
- Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and fostering a culture of excellence.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with recent experience in a Senior role
- Experience executing on large scale projects from 0 to 1
- Strong Architectural Experience: Demonstrated ability to design and implement complex architectures, making key technology decisions.
- Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of backend technologies, including Golang (preferred), distributed systems, databases (SQL and NoSQL), and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
- Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with A/B testing frameworks and experimentation platforms.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Growth Engineering - Industry experience
- Experience with LLMs and generative AI
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k Match
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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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 pay 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.
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.
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