Reddit Answers is a new AI-powered search experience that makes it effortless to see what real humans think about almost any topic in the world. Our goal is to make Reddit the best place on the internet to find answers, opinions, and conversations. Redditors produce the most amazing content about every niche topic – this underleveraged data coupled with modern advances in AI systems is presenting a unique opportunity to quickly build a new kind of search engine.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in web application development using JavaScript or other relevant languages
- Experience with common front-end web component frameworks (such as React), and server-side rendering frameworks (such as Next.js)
- Strong understanding of JavaScript fundamentals, web performance
- Have a strong product sense, and be comfortable translating data and user feedback into features
- Experience in other more general purpose programming languages (e.g. Python, Go).
- Familiar with software engineering best practices such as unit testing and code reviews, design, and documentation.
Responsibilities
- Ideate, design, build, and ship experiments and features that reach millions of users and advance our product vision.
- Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to create compelling, user-focused experiences, and communicate effectively across teams and disciplines.
- Shape team strategy by contributing meaningful insights and helping to drive alignment toward shared objectives.
- Engage actively in product reviews and team discussions, offering technical perspective while helping to scope, estimate, and prioritize competing needs.
- Foster a strong engineering culture by mentoring, collaborating with peers, and helping set a high standard for quality and UX
Other
- U.S. time zones are preferred.
- Understanding customer needs and translating them into product features is a plus.
