Software Engineer (Backend)

Line manager

Engineering Manager, Backend lead — Maksim Alekseev.

Why we are recommending

• Econ is one of the fastest growing and most innovative teams at Reddit.

Responsibilities

• Move incredibly fast while delivering a quality product. You'll work on the highest impact project in a team of brilliant engineers like yourself. In addition to building technology, you’ll contribute to the product and business strategy.
• Build features for half a billion users.
• Technical improvements and performance optimization.

Requirements

• Knowledge in core Computer Science, Databases, Concurrency, Web.
• Ability to design systems for high load and huge number of concurrent users or requests.
• Ability to design reliable and resilient systems.
• Prior knowledge of Golang is not required.

Company offers

• Relocation to US, Canada, UK or Ireland. (Reddit HQ is located in San-Francisco). Or remote work from almost anywhere in the world.
• Accomplishments e.g. be the developer who built Reddit’s dev platform.
• Challenging engineering tasks e.g. 100k-1M requests/sec services.
• Working with brilliant colleagues who are known in the industry.

Hiring process

• No test.
• Two technical rounds.
• General Programming. 1-hour talk about Algorithms and Data structures, Concurrency, Databases, modern Web and Software Design principles.
• System Design. 1-hour architecture session to start with something simple and then make it scalable, highly-available and performant at load.
• Both interview rounds are language-agnostic, the team doesn't require prior knowledge of Golang.