[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Reddit logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2020/10/Reddit.jpg)](https://jobicy.com/company/reddit.md)[Reddit](https://jobicy.com/company/reddit.md) # Front End Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/reddit.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md)SalaryUSD 164,200–229,900 / yrDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceEntry-Level, JuniorPublished2 Nov 2026Apply before2 Dec 2026Listing views33Application actions2Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Reddit is hiring a Front End Software Engineer to build and scale consumer-facing experiences used across its large community platform. The role covers the full development lifecycle, including technical design, implementation, testing, experimentation, performance analysis, and deployment. The engineer will work closely with product, design, data science, machine learning, platform, and frontend partners across areas such as feeds, community tools, growth, identity, and monetization. Strong hands-on expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, APIs, and responsive production applications is required. The position also includes code-review leadership, engineering standards, and mentorship responsibilities. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 4/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 4/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior-leaning product engineering role supporting high-scale consumer experiences, with ownership from architecture through deployment and performance optimization. The breadth of cross-functional work, quality expectations, and mentorship duties make it technically and operationally demanding. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$197,050US market range (per year)$160k–$235k0$258.50k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses a base salary range of $164,200–$229,900 USD. Although the posting does not explicitly state a cadence beside the range, yearly pay is inferred from the magnitude, US location, and standard compensation convention for a full-time software engineering position. The estimated US market range for this role is $160,000–$235,000 per year. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I would then prioritize techniques such as list virtualization, image and media optimization, route-level code splitting, memoization where profiling supports it, and pagination or incremental loading. I would validate each change with production monitoring and controlled experiments to ensure it improves both user experience and engagement. Describe how you would design a frontend feature that depends on several backend services. I would begin by defining user flows, loading and error states, ownership boundaries, and API contracts with backend partners. Where appropriate, I would use a backend-for-frontend or aggregated GraphQL layer to avoid excessive client-side round trips. I would build the UI with resilient state handling, observability, feature flags, tests, and a rollout plan that supports safe iteration. How do you balance fast product experimentation with maintainable frontend architecture? I separate the experiment-specific logic from stable domain components and use feature flags to limit risk and simplify rollback. I set minimum quality requirements for accessibility, tests, error handling, and instrumentation even for early iterations. After a successful experiment, I schedule consolidation work so temporary code does not become permanent technical debt. What do you look for when reviewing a frontend pull request? I review correctness, user impact, accessibility, performance implications, API and state-management choices, test coverage, and maintainability. I also check whether the implementation follows established patterns and whether error, loading, and edge cases are addressed. My feedback is specific and constructive, with an emphasis on helping the author understand tradeoffs rather than only requesting changes. How would you communicate a technical tradeoff to a non-technical product stakeholder? I would explain the tradeoff in terms of user outcomes, delivery timing, risk, and measurable impact rather than implementation details alone. For example, I might compare a faster initial version with limited personalization against a more complex version that could improve relevance but delay launch. I would recommend a path, clarify assumptions, and propose metrics or an experiment to validate the decision. Opportunity details ## About this role. 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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit [www.redditinc.com](http://www.redditinc.com/). 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 ### What You’ll Do * Product & Engineering Execution: Partner closely with cross-functional partners in product, design, and platform engineering to execute on product strategy and build novel, user-centric media features. * Full-Lifecycle Development: Drive the complete development lifecycle—from technical design and architectural proposals to implementation, unit/integration testing, experimentation, performance analysis, and deployment. * Quality & Velocity: Move fast while maintaining high quality standards through thorough code reviews, detailed design doc evaluations, and constructive feedback on product specs and UI mocks. * Mentorship & Engineering Standards: Help establish developer workflows, champion best practices, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers to elevate technical excellence across the team. ### Who You Are * Product-Minded Engineer: You bridge the gap between technical metrics and user experience, understanding how low-level optimizations impact real-world user engagement and product quality. * Pragmatic Builder: You strike the right balance between rapid iteration and architectural rigor, delivering scalable solutions without getting bogged down by unnecessary processes. * Effective Collaborator: You excel in communicating complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Continuous Learner: You have a deep curiosity for emerging technologies and actively keep up with modern industry trends, standards, and performance optimizations. ### Technical Qualifications * Frontend Expertise: Strong proficiency in modern web stacks, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with a proven track record of translating complex designs into responsive, production-grade applications. * API & System Design: Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining robust APIs using protocols such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, HTTP, or Thrift basics. * Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 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/](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: $164,200—$229,900 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. 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