🏗️ Foster and Guide the Technical Strategy for Onboarding
Define and accelerate the backend architecture for a newly onboarded user: the signal-collection systems that learn who a new Redditor is, the personalization pipelines that turn those signals into a tailored first feed, and the experimentation infrastructure that lets us iterate on the moments that decide whether someone becomes a lifelong user. You won’t be following a roadmap; you’ll shape how we build the systems that compound for every user’s lifetime.
🤝Partner With the EM to Cultivate a Growth Engineering Mindset
Growth teams operate differently than platform teams. We prioritize experimentation and iteration, which means sometimes we throw things away to move faster. You’ll help the team internalize that operating model: what it means to build for learning, how to balance velocity with reliability, and how to stay rigorous when moving fast.
🤖Scale Impact Through Collaborative Engineering
You’ll build and maintain deep partnerships with the engineering teams whose surfaces directly shape a newly onboarded user’s experience: Relevance, Feeds, Notifications, and beyond. Many of these collaborations will touch ML-powered systems that surface the right content to the right users. You’ll be the bridge that ensures Onboarding has a technical representation for the team and a collaborative influence on their roadmaps.
📊Instrument, Measure, and Iterate
Establish the instrumentation and experimentation foundations that let the team run rigorous A/B tests on growth levers. Use metrics to make the case for the bets worth taking, and deprioritize efforts that don’t meet goals.
🔗Guide Cross-Functional Alignment
Serve as the engineering voice in XFN partnerships with Product, Design, Data Science, and other Consumer platform teams. You’ll align stakeholders on technical feasibility and tradeoffs, co-author roadmaps that bridge user experience goals with backend realities, and represent Onboarding Engineering in Reddit-wide technical forums.
⚡Raise the Bar on Engineering Excellence
Advocate for reliability, scalability, and maintainability across a complex, high-scale distributed system. Lead design reviews, establish patterns that the broader organization can learn from, and ensure that moving fast never becomes an excuse for accruing crippling tech debt. You’ll define what “great” looks like on this team.