Senior iOS Engineer, Media Foundations

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

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, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Media Foundation’s mission is simple: Delivering seamless, high-performance media experiences that meet and exceed industry standards, ensuring unparalleled engagement across all platforms at Reddit. Media is the most engaging medium on Reddit, whether it’s for posts, comments, or ads. This is a pivotal role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit’s media experience across all devices. We are seeking a stellar engineer with a deep understanding of scalable media solutions who can drive innovation, deliver top-tier video experiences to our users, and guide other teams in seamlessly integrating with our video API. This role not only involves building robust media capabilities but also contributing to the growth and strength of our media engineering team as Reddit continues to scale.

This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

What You Will Do

• Architect a highly modular, easy-to-integrate iOS video player that enables other teams to build features effortlessly while delivering first-class performance for users.
• Partner with backend media infrastructure and CDN teams to optimize global delivery and performance.
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel media products and features that our users will love.
• Work with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
• Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgement to validate and own the final outputs.

Qualifications

• 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 mobile native applications at scale, using Swift
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
• Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• A track record of leading projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
• 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.

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