Senior iOS Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering
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San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content participate in communities and connect with others. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys Product Backend Engineers in Consumer Engineering partner directly with Product Managers Designers Data Scientists ML Engineers and Frontend Engineers to build experiment with and scale features that power how hundreds of millions of users discover join navigate and engage with Reddit.
This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams including:
- Core Product & Feeds: Home Experience Recommendations & Content Discovery Contribution
- Community & Presence: Reddit Pro Youth Experience & Teen Safety Creator Tools
- Growth & Engagement: Authentication Notifications Social Sharing SEO Onboarding.
- Monetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition Conversion Funnel Optimization
- Identity & Security: Account Management Trust & Safety
- Build and evolve user-facing iOS experiences that help people discover consume create and engage with content and communities.
- Lead projects through the full development lifecycle from product definition and technical design to implementation experimentation launch and ongoing improvement.
- Partner with product design data science ML backend and platform teams to shape strategy translate technical capabilities into intuitive experiences and deliver measurable user impact.
- Improve iOS architecture performance reliability accessibility developer workflows and engineering standards while mentoring teammates and driving cross-functional technical initiatives.
- An experienced iOS engineer who has built and shipped consumer-facing native applications at scale using Swift.
- A strategic product-minded partner who connects technical decisions to user and business outcomes and can lead through ambiguity.
- A clear and collaborative communicator who can explain complex tradeoffs influence stakeholders and build alignment across teams.
- A curious adaptable and ownership-oriented teammate who embraces experimentation learns from setbacks improves processes and helps others succeed.
- Professional experience developing native iOS applications with Swift and a strong understanding of iOS frameworks and application architecture.
- Ability to write idiomatic readable reusable and testable code with strong skills in debugging performance optimization reliability and maintainability.
- Experience designing mobile systems and interfaces evaluating architectural tradeoffs and building scalable features from APIs through user-facing UI.
- Experience with experimentation feature flags instrumentation analytics and product or quality-of-experience metrics; familiarity with AVFoundation VideoToolbox HLS media playback recommendation systems accessibility or ML-integrated products is a plus.
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 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:
$190800 - $267100 USD
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
