Senior iOS Software Engineer, Reddit Chat

Posted 18 Days Ago
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Chicago, IL
Hybrid
191K-267K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
The Senior iOS Software Engineer will lead the development of innovative chat features for Reddit, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences on the iOS platform.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Does solving community engagement challenges motivate you? Come join the iOS Chat team and help us build innovative solutions for millions of redditors all around the world!

The Reddit of today is built on top of communities (subreddits) where conversations are created daily on millions of different topics. However, the current experience lacks a real-time, casual environment that is more innate of a chat experience which is due to the forum-like structure of Reddit’s Posts and Comments. The Chat team is taking this problem head-on and has the ambitious goal to make synchronous conversations a core part of the Reddit community experience. We believe that giving users a more casual way to communicate will unlock new ways for communities to grow.

We are hiring a Senior iOS Engineer who can help us innovate to create the next Reddit chat. We move incredibly fast, have an entrepreneurial spirit, are opinionated yet humbled by user feedback and back ourselves to deliver a quality product. We are seeking a like-minded engineer, who will work on a high-impact project with wide visibility within the company and join a team of brilliant engineers like yourself. You’ll get a chance to contribute to the product and business strategy, in addition to technical challenges and work alongside product managers, user experience designers and business analysts.

The Role

  • Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute product and business strategies and build novel products and features that our users will love on the iOS platform.
  • Communicate effectively, within the team and across disciplines. Work closely with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences for iOS.
  • Contribute meaningfully to our team’s strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning our future. Don’t just come along for the ride.
  • Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight specific to iOS development. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.
  • Foster a healthy engineering culture and collaborate with other iOS and platform engineers.
  • Bring your expertise in iOS development to contribute to the architecture and implementation of our chat features.

What We Are Looking For:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent technical expertise.
  • 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing iOS native applications at scale, using Swift
  • You are a strategic thinker who thrives on developing a long-term technical foundation and has a passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves people’s lives globally on iOS.
  • A track record of leading large iOS projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations.
  • Experience with modern iOS development frameworks and patterns such as SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine, and Concurrency.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, data teams to deliver great user experiences on the iOS platform.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

  • 401k Match

  • Family Planning Support

  • Gender-Affirming Care

  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

  • Generous 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:

$190,800$267,100 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].

Top Skills

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Concurrency
iOS
Swift
Swiftui
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

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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