Staff Software Engineer, Onboarding

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 .

The Onboarding team owns the first experience every user has after signing up for Reddit Every new Redditor, on every platform, walks through a flow we design, and our job is to make those first interactions feel streamlined, delightful, and personal

We guide each user through the signals we need to tailor their experience, then use those signals to help them quickly discover the magic of Reddit: valuable content and communities that feel approachable, relevant, and immediately rewarding from their very first session.

Few teams at Reddit sit closer to the companys growth than this one The decisions we make in the first session compound for the entire lifetime of a user, and the difference between a flow that connects and one that doesnt is the difference between someone becoming a lifelong Redditor or never coming back

That kind of leverage is rare, and its why this work is some of the most impactful product engineering happening at the company.

We get there by combining polished product engineering, ML-powered personalization, and rigorous product experimentation, in close partnership with product, design, and data science cross functional partners

We move fast, we ship to learn, and we measure everything we ship If you want your work to genuinely shape how millions of people experience Reddit for the first time, this is the team to do it on.

What Youll Do 🏗️ 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