Engineering Manager, Top of Funnel

As the Engineering Manager for the Top of Funnel team at Reddit, you will lead a full-stack team responsible for building UIs, APIs, and foundation backend systems to support web crawling and deliver an exceptional guest user experience. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership, and a strong drive to understand and fulfill customer needs.
Location:
Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly. However, to accommodate the distributed nature of the SEO team and the rest of Reddits workforce, candidates in Ireland(Dublin) or UK(London) are preferred.
What Youll Do:
Execution
You will own the execution of your teams roadmap and be accountable for consistent, predictable delivery. You will ruthlessly prioritize both planned projects and emergent asks. You will work closely with Tech Leads on project management and empower your team to execute autonomously. You will identify risks and proactively communicate them both internally and externally.
Recruiting
Our engineering managers are directly responsible for scaling up their teams. You will identify your teams needs, write job descriptions, source, interview, and help close candidates. You will have the support of our incredible recruiting team to bring diverse and talented engineers into Reddit.
Career Development
You will help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them. You will constantly seek opportunities to push your engineers outside their comfort zone and turn followers into leaders.
Quality Control
You will work with your team to develop processes and tooling that constantly improve the quality of our products and systems, ensuring that they meet product requirements, customer needs, and SLAs.
Organizational Alignment
You will serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your teams plans align with company goals. You will become an expert in Search Engine Optimization and other Top-of-funnel channels and our customer needs. You will participate in and challenge prioritization decisions. You will communicate your teams work and set expectations with external stakeholders.
What We Are Looking For

5+ years of experience in backend or full stack product development
2+ years experience in people management of high-performing engineering teams
You're highly technical, enough to solve almost any problem your team has yourself, but you prefer to guide your team into solving them.
Ability to work independently. Youll be working at a company thats mostly based in North America. You need to be able to make decisions and solve problems autonomously.
Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

Reddit is a community of communities. Its 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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internets largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Pension Savings Plan
Medical Plan
Short-term sickness benefits
WIA excess and WGA gap insurance
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal & Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.

London, United Kingdom