Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform

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

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 layer, persistence, and dependency injection. 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 Staff 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.

Build agentic workflows to accelerate migrations across a multi-million line of code repository.

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 (100+ 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