Tech Lead - Staff iOS Engineer, Developer Platform

Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, with over 100,000 active communities and over 70 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Developer Platform’s mission is to empower our community of 3rd party developers and moderators to extend Reddit with useful and exciting features.

We’ve built a Reddit-flavored SDK for server driven cross-platform UI, a compute platform, and lots of entry-points into Reddit products.

We’re looking for someone to lead our mobile efforts as a tech lead and major contributor to the iOS app. This is a high impact role where you will have the opportunity to shape our mobile rendering engine, data layer and network stack to power rich, real-time experiences.

What You’ll Do

Act as a tech lead for the mobile efforts, working in conjunction with 4-6 other mobile developers.Own dev platform’s component and integration within the larger Reddit-wide iOS codebase.Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing and writing both code and tech docs.Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Who You Might Be

8+ years of experience in iOS app development1+ year of tech leadership experienceExperience working on a 0-1 team and product, inventing technologies to meet novel use casesYou love writing technical docs and convincing others of your approach.Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.Exceptional communication skills with peers, cross-functional partners and leadershipNice to have: Familiarity with Javascript bridge layers like JavascriptCore or HermesBS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Comprehensive Health benefits401k MatchingWorkspace benefits for your home officePersonal & Professional development fundsFamily Planning SupportFlexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Days Off4+ months paid Parental LeavePaid 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

$198,200—$297,300 USD

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Key Skills

• Backend
• Swift
• iOS
• JavaScript