iOS Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

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 Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Product Backend Engineers in Consumer Engineering partner directly with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Frontend Engineers to build, experiment with, and scale features that power how hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage with Reddit. This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including: Core Product & Feeds: Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Contribution Community & Presence: Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools Growth & Engagement: Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding. Monetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization Identity & Security: Account Management, Trust & Safety What You’ll Do Build and evolve user-facing iOS experiences that help people discover, consume, create, and engage with content and communities. Lead projects through the full development lifecycle, from product definition and technical design to implementation, experimentation, launch, and ongoing improvement. Partner with product, design, data science, ML, backend, and platform teams to shape strategy, translate technical capabilities into intuitive experiences, and deliver measurable user impact. Improve iOS architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, developer workflows, and engineering standards while mentoring teammates and driving cross-functional technical initiatives. Who You Might Be An experienced iOS engineer who has built and shipped consumer-facing native applications at scale using Swift. A strategic, product-minded partner who connects technical decisions to user and business outcomes and can lead through ambiguity. A clear and collaborative communicator who can explain complex tradeoffs, influence stakeholders, and build alignment across teams. A curious, adaptable, and ownership-oriented teammate who embraces experimentation, learns from setbacks, improves processes, and helps others succeed. Technical Qualifications Professional experience developing native iOS applications with Swift and a strong understanding of iOS frameworks and application architecture. Ability to write idiomatic, readable, reusable, and testable code, with strong skills in debugging, performance optimization, reliability, and maintainability. Experience designing mobile systems and interfaces, evaluating architectural tradeoffs, and building scalable features from APIs through user-facing UI. Experience with experimentation, feature flags, instrumentation, analytics, and product or quality-of-experience metrics; familiarity with AVFoundation, VideoToolbox, HLS, media playback, recommendation systems, accessibility, or ML-integrated products is a plus. Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vaca