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Principal Engineer, iOS Performance

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$56.50 - $73/hr

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Analytics Engineer

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Staff Android Engineer, Home Experience

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Staff Product Security Engineer

$217K - $303.90K/yr

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Reddit is a community of communities. It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is ... As a Senior Engineering Manager, Unified Embeddings Platform, you will work lead our Embeddings ...

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Staff Android Engineer (Clients Platform)

$217K - $303.90K/yr

What you'll do: • Own and shape the architecture of Reddit's Android App to scale for the next 100M+ DAUs. • Improve Android developer experience by designing tools, workflows, and CI ...

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Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL

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Expanding our developer tooling to enable elegant schema contributions. * Building deep observability to coordinate GraphQL requests efficiently across Reddit's architecture. * Tuning our stack for ...

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Staff Software Engineer, Community Builders

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Principal Engineer, iOS Performance

Principal Engineer, iOS Performance

Reddit

New York, NY

Other

Medical, Retirement, PTO

Posted 25 days ago

Job description

The iOS Platform team sets the technical direction for iOS at Reddit. Our customers are primarily other engineers. It's our job to help improve developer efficiency by providing libraries/APIs/frameworks, monitoring performance, building shared components, improving build tools, etc. In the codebase, we own the core components of the app such as the networking and caching stack. We set the direction in which the codebase builds by defining which design patterns and technologies to employ at Reddit.

This role will enable us to architect our iOS app to scale for the next 100M+ DAUs. They will help establish the right standards in iOS development and will help in improving the overall iOS development experience at Reddit. In addition, they will mentor senior iOS engineers across Reddit and will be seen as a go-to person for any challenges on iOS App architecture.

As a Principal Engineer in the iOS Platform team, you will be responsible for designing a solid foundation for our iOS application development. You will have the company-wide scope, impact, and responsibility in shaping the future of iOS development at Reddit. You will champion the technology selection, best practices in Reddit's iOS application development. In addition, you will act as an Architect for the iOS application at Reddit.

What you'll do

  • Own the architecture of Reddit's iOS Mobile App and make it scale to the next 100M+ DAUs. Propose ideas/solutions to reach our vision of "making Reddit's Mobile Apps best-in-class."
  • Identify the gaps in our current iOS App Architecture, and lead redesign of the iOS platform to improve modularity, performance, and quality.
  • Define, measure, and execute on key user-facing performance goals, specifically minimizing App Not Responding (ANR) rate, reducing app launch time (Time to Interactive/TTFF), and eliminating slow/dropped frames.
  • Improve observability and harden data quality for all key performance areas, including establishing reliable telemetry, monitoring, and guardrails for ANR rate, app launch time, and slow/dropped frames.
  • Drive a company-wide culture of performance, ensuring that every iOS engineer at Reddit has the tools and skills needed to own the performance of their product surfaces.
  • Mentor iOS developers across the company.
  • Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems in iOS development.

What we expect from you

  • Deep experience-based understanding of how to build mobile applications at scale.
  • 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.
  • 10+ years of Software development experience with at least 5+ years in designing/developing iOS applications. 
  • Experience in influencing larger (200+ engineers) organizations on technical direction/best practices related to iOS
  • Experience with modern iOS development frameworks such as Swift UI and structured Concurrency.
  • Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves people's lives globally. 
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, data teams to deliver great user experiences.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent technical expertise

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 

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