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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
The Client Platform Organization defines how we build and more importantly, how we build with excellence. It’s not enough for Reddit just to work, it needs to work every time for every user on every device in every location. The Client Platform Organization invests in our Software Architecture, Developer Experience, and Client Health in support of a better Reddit experience.
The iOS Platform team sets the technical direction for iOS at Reddit. Our customers are primarily other engineers. It’s our job to help improve developer efficiency by providing libraries/APIs/frameworks, monitoring performance, building shared components, improving build tools, etc. In the codebase, we own the core components of the app such as the networking and caching stack. We set the direction in which the codebase builds by defining which design patterns and technologies to employ at Reddit.
As the Engineering Manager on Reddit’s iOS Platform Team, you’ll use your engineering, collaboration, and leadership skills to deliver a performant experience to millions of Redditors, and lead the architectural decision-making of Reddit’s iOS engineering organization. You'll collaborate cross-functionally to innovate and replace our internal frameworks and tooling to help Reddit’s feature teams write performant code without a second thought. This is a critical role for enabling Reddit's future growth plans.
What You’ll Do:
- Build, hire and lead a high-caliber team of iOS Mobile developers.
- Be responsible for setting and maintaining latency, stability, and developer productivity goals for the Mobile Applications.
- Coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
- Set and support a metrics-driven culture, with efficient processes and strong transparency.
- Work with feature teams across the company to follow the best practices and to deliver high quality code for Reddit’s Mobile applications.
Who You Might Be:
- Preferred: 6+ years experience of leading a team of software engineers, as a people manager.
- 8+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in Mobile development, or Platform development roles.
- Strong experience in setting the goals, execution, and accountability.
- Experience in iOS native mobile platform.
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages and mobile frameworks; Swift, Obj-c, Java, Python, Go etc.
- Strong organizational skills, Influential skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
- Excellent communication, planning & collaboration skills
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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.
The base pay range for this position is:
$232,500—$325,500 USD
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 you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].
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What We Do
Reddit is a community of millions of users engaging in the creation of content and the sharing of conversation across tens of thousands of topics. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.
Why Work With Us
At Reddit, you’ll help build something that encourages millions around the world to think more, do more, learn more, feel more– and maybe even laugh more.
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