Senior Frontend Software Engineer - DevX at Reddit — ApplyScope

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The mission of the Developer Experience org is to design, develop, and support tools and processes that make common developer workflows efficient and reliable.

AI-powered and agentic developer tools are changing what is possible, creating an opportunity to rethink how engineers write, test, review, ship, and operate software. At Reddit’s scale, that means building tools that are not only more intelligent, but also faster, more reliable, easier to use, and grounded in strong engineering fundamentals.

This role sits at the center of that work: owning frontend development for Reddit’s internal developer tooling, from understanding developer pain points and designing the right user experience to building scalable, maintainable interfaces that support the full path from the first line of code to the artifact released at the end of the process. You’ll help explore new AI-powered workflows while continuing to build the core interfaces, platform capabilities, and engineering fundamentals that make developer tools useful, trustworthy, and reliable.

Some of our present and future challenges include:

Designing and building the next generation of developer tooling, including agentic and AI-powered workflows.
Improving developer velocity, confidence, and service reliability across Reddit Engineering.
Building tools and workflows that make writing, testing, reviewing, and shipping code easier.
Architecting and improving continuous delivery experiences for hundreds of engineers.
Scaling our infrastructure, interfaces, and processes to serve a growing engineering organization.
Understanding internal users’ needs and turning that understanding into meaningful product and technical improvements.
Investigating, building, and integrating novel technologies where they solve real problems for developers.

You’ll draw on your frontend expertise, technical judgment, and leadership skills to build developer tooling that is smooth, reliable, easy to use, and valuable to a growing engineering organization. You’ll work directly with engineers across Reddit to understand their pain points, shape solutions, incorporate feedback, and communicate the impact of the team’s work.

What You’ll Do

Work cross-functionally across Reddit Engineering to understand developer needs, quickly prototype solutions, and iterate based on feedback.
Own frontend development for internal developer tooling, from solution design and implementation through launch and long-term maintainability.
Build scalable, maintainable interfaces across both AI-powered developer workflows and the core non-AI systems engineers rely on every day.
Lead high-impact projects across Reddit’s developer tooling ecosystem by writing and reviewing code and design docs, aligning stakeholders, and making pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
Improve the team’s tools, processes, and best practices while raising the bar for quality, usability, and maintainability.
Mentor engineers and help shape a roadmap that reflects real developer needs and delivers meaningful improvements to Reddit’s engineering organization.

You Have

5+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship professional software development experience, with frontend engineering as a core strength.
Strong proficiency with modern frontend development using TypeScript or JavaScript. Experience with component-based frameworks such as React, Lit, or similar is valuable, but we care more about strong frontend fundamentals than any specific framework.
Experience designing and building end-to-end web applications at scale, including user interfaces, API integrations, system design, testing, launch, and iteration.
Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools and workflows as part of your own engineering practice, with curiosity and judgment about where these tools can meaningfully improve developer productivity.
A track record of leading large, ambiguous projects that require cross-team collaboration, technical judgment, and clear ownership from problem definition through delivery.
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code reviews, technical design, documentation, maintainability, and building scalable, well-designed systems.
A user-focused mindset, with experience understanding user needs, working with feedback, and building reliable, usable, high-quality product experiences.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a fully remote environment, influence technical direction, and navigate complex requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and helping teams make pragmatic tradeoffs.
A self-directed, action-oriented approach. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and driving work forward even when the path is not fully defined.

Bonus Points

Experience working in developer experience, developer productivity, internal platforms, or developer tooling.
Experience building tools or workflows for internal engineering users.
Experience conducting user discovery, interviews, or feedback sessions with technical users.
Experience measuring the impact of frontend work through experimentation, measured rollouts, analytics, or qualitative feedback.
Experience designing and implementing internal platforms or reusable frontend systems.
Experience with backend-adjacent technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, or Go.

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

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