Backend Software Engineer
Remote
United Kingdom
Freelance
24-04-2025
Job Specifications
Software Engineer – Backend – 12-month contract – UK(Remote) - 48 GBP - 52 GBP GBP/Hour
Must Have
API Design
Distributed Systems
golang
GraphQL
Python
REST
JOB DESCRIPTION
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 73+ million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com. "The front page of the internet", Reddit brings over 500 million people each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.
We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to work on technical efforts across almost everything you see and touch on Reddit as a user - Feeds, Posting, Commenting, Media, Profiles, Reddit for Businesses and Publishers! This role requires expertise in building backend systems at scale. You’ll build services, work alongside ML models, drive architecture decisions and primarily write production quality code while collaborating with engineers, MLEs & PMs across multiple teams.
In your day-to-day, you can expect to:
Work on key technical and design decisions across all areas mentioned above.
Work within a team to abstract monolithic systems into clean, isolated services to decouple product and infrastructure layers.
Develop data-pipelines for feature population for ML models, and at times help productionalize them.
Maintain high standards of quality
What Sets You Apart:
You’ve worked with a social platform or consumer-focused company, writing code for backend systems at scale.
You bring an understanding of the intersection of Backend with AI/ML on user-facing products.
You’re equally comfortable diving into codebases as you are making high-level architectural decisions.
Who You Might Be:
7+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
7+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++)
Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra.
A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
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
About the Company
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