# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Client Architecture

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: Remote - United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $232,500-$325,500 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Client Architecture to lead the architectural overhaul of its post and comment composers across all platforms. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will define the multi-year technical vision for how users create content on Reddit, focusing on continued modernization of composers and building out new contribution formats.

## Key Responsibilities:

- Architect for Scale: Define and execute the org-wide client architecture strategy to support seamless video creation, editing, and uploading directly within shared composers.

- Accelerate Product Roadmap: Build and scale new contribution formats natively within shared post and comment experiences.

- Mentorship & Org Leadership: Serve as the technical anchor for the Contribution engineering team and influence the broader Content Ecosystem org.

- Leverage Modern Tooling: Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding.

- Optimize Contribution Funnel: Lead the engineering of highly performant client infrastructure.

## Qualifications:

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record as a Senior Staff Engineer or Principal Engineer on consumer-facing mobile or web client applications.

- Client Architecture Expertise: Deep mastery of modern web architecture (e.g., React, TypeScript) with strong architectural command of native mobile paradigms (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin).

- Domain Expertise: Demonstrated track record of solving hard client-side performance and rendering bottlenecks at scale.

- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence with aggressive growth targets.

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- React
- TypeScript
- iOS/Swift
- Android/Kotlin
- AI-assisted development tools

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