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ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS:

The hiring process for this role involves completing your Braintrust profile, applying directly to the role on Braintrust, and undergoing a one-time screening to ensure you meet our vetted talent specifications. After this, the hiring team will contact you directly if they believe you are a suitable match.

Our process isn't for everyone, that's intentional. If you believe that you are a top candidate for this job, please join our network to give yourself the opportunity to work with top companies.

 

  • JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
  • LOCATION: Remote - Work from anywhere - PST/PDT/CIST, EST/EDT | Full day overlap
  • HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $70 – $75/hr
  • ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long term
  • EXPERIENCE: 3-5 years
  • BRAINTRUST JOB ID: 9321

 

THE OPPORTUNITY

 

Requirements

Please note that this is a 6 month contract with the opportunity of extension.

Start date: ASAP

 

Interview process:

1. 30min interview with the Hiring Manager

2. Take home asessment: Short web app project (Less than 2 hours to complete)

3. 45min interview with the Tech team

 

What you’ll be working on

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. We're a flexible first company. 

"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. The business experience team’s mission is to empower brands, organizations and professionals to create engaging content for our communities while growing their presence on Reddit. This is a high impact role where you will be involved in technical & product strategy on a zero to one product. You’ll have a chance to get in on the ground floor of a new product space with a 100M+ revenue opportunity.

 

What You’ll Do:

  • Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
  • Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
  • Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
  • Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Who You Might Be:

  • 6+ years of software development experience in one or more front end focussed programming languages; Javascript, Typescript, ES6
  • Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as LIT, Polymer, React, Vue, or Angular with experience with CSS.
  • Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.
  • Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems.
  • Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
  • BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
  • 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.
  • Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

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Notes:

Our employers all have varying legal and geographic requirements for their roles, they trust Braintrust to find them the talent that meet their unique specifications. For that reason, this role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

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