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Hey everyone! Many have reached out to me and checked in via text, email, and on LinkedIn. Yes, I’m having more fun than ever at @Reddit, and things are starting to heat up with leadership roles opening across Core Engineering. Some are open now, some are coming soon! I always update my profile with roles I'm working. Here’s the hard thing about hard things. My leaders have specific needs, and while people that I come across have done amazing things in their career, successfully delivered some of the hardest technical challenges, often the gap is too wide and we don’t move forward. I work to be as clear as possible to candidates on what we’re seeking, and often run profiles by my hiring leaders if there are any indicators of good alignment, and based on the criteria that my leaders give me in my kick-off meetings and in our regular syncs. First, let me tell you about my hiring leader, our Senior Director of Engineering, for X, Keyur (KD) Bhulani You can look him up on Linkedin and see his amazing career journey, and about his technical expertise, which is similar to what we're seeking for our open role today. A little about KD, he is transparent, he gives feedback quickly, and I appreciate that he is dialed in and knows what he’s looking for in this director hire. He works to build complete and diverse teams and is an inclusive leader. To learn more about the role, read on! Director of Engineering, X - Marketplace: Link to role => https://bit.ly/4cAmH7k. This person will drive technical strategy for Reddit’s new user economy and payments platforms. They will also be responsible for maintaining and evolving the existing infrastructure for Reddit’s premium subscription & Avatars revenue streams. We are seeking someone with demonstrated social media experience - building and scaling direct to consumer revenue products, marketplace products and/or payments platforms. We expect you to be able to readily recount detailed wins and learning moments in this space. From a technical expertise perspective we’re seeking both backend infra and client side depth and capabilities. Finally, we’re seeking someone that has 5+ years leading teams, and within that, be a manager of managers as well as an amazing cross-functional partner. Can we find this unicorn? Transparently, we’ve gotten an overwhelming response. Since posting late Thursday we’ve had close to 500 applications, and I have four conversations that I’m looking forward to today, as well as a couple more I’m waiting to hear back from. If you have applied to this role, but your experience doesn’t meet what we’re seeking above, please know that more leadership roles are coming. I am seeing some incredibly talented individuals, and please trust that I am working to pipeline for more roles that are coming soon. I hope you have an amazing day ahead, and if you know someone that might be great for this role, please pass it on! If no one has told you lately, you are awesome! Photo cred: Joshua Jones

💼 As a Project Lead, Tech Leader, or Hiring Manager, would you hire a full-stack developer, or prefer dedicated front-end and back-end developers for your projects? 💼 The decision between hiring a full-stack developer or opting for specialized front-end and back-end developers can shape the success of your project. Here’s the breakdown: 🔹 Full-stack developers bring versatility, capable of handling both front-end and back-end tasks, making them flexible assets for smaller teams or fast-moving projects. 🔹 Specialized front-end & back-end developers offer deep expertise, mastering their domains and ensuring top-tier quality in complex systems or larger projects. What’s your preference when building your dev team? 🚀 Share your thoughts below! Let’s weigh the pros and cons of each strategy together. 👇 #TechLeadership #HiringStrategies #FullStackDeveloper #Frontend #Backend #TeamBuilding #SoftwareDevelopment #Hiring #opentowork

✍ Andrew Orlowski writes: What do caddy butchers and diecasters have in common? They’re both #occupations, once widespread, that don’t exist anymore. And maybe they’ll soon be joined by another: #coders. Software #developers are not feeling very loved right now as the #tech industry continues to dispense with them en masse. January saw an increase in redundancies, according to the website Layoffs.fyi.  Leading the charge were Alphabet, Meta and eBay, which all announced fresh rounds of job #cuts, while Amazon and Microsoft both slashed their games divisions. They add to the 164,969 tech layoffs publicly announced in 2022, and 262,682 last year. Many more were not disclosed in public.  This may be more than a correction as the #sector rectifies itself after the extravagant overhiring of the Covid #pandemic. But perhaps something else is also going on, and that is that the world just doesn’t need so many #software developers. Elon Musk’s experiment in running X, formerly Twitter, using just a fraction of the #staff it once employed is now being copied, albeit not so radically. Read the full column below 👇 https://lnkd.in/e7Wmu7NF

I LOVE this post by Lianna Novitz. I've counseled dozens of college students, recent grads, MBAs, and seasoned professionals during their job search process. I often hear them say, "I'm looking for a new job, can you let me know if you hear of anything?" Take note of Lianna's specificity in the ask and clear representation of her value prop. Lianna successfully and succinctly includes: (1) Career context - what she's done, where she is currently (2) Her "secret sauce" - what differentiates her from the rest, with NUMBERS (3) Career goals - what she's looking for with specifics (4) The ask - a list of tangible ways you can help her in the search (5) Personality and positivity - she keeps it positive by mentioning all the other things she's been up to, she shows parts of herself that aren't necessarily represented on her profile I also had the pleasure of working with Lianna at Unity and through Women Who Code, and highly recommend her as an employee.

Secret hack to land your dream job. Use this query to find 1000+ hidden job listings. For e.g. Searching for PM jobs, try this query in Google site:jobs.lever. co ("senior product manager" | "product manager" | "growth" | "PM" ) intitle:remote For e.g. Searching for Engineering jobs, try this query in Google site:jobs.lever. co ("frontend" | "fullstack" | "software engineer" | "web" ) intitle:remote" You can also exclude certain keywords with the - operator, for e.g. "-director -senior". You can use google search operators to help you customize your query. Other sites to use it for: "site:jobs.ashbyhq. com" "site:boards.greenhouse. io" "site:apply.workable. com" "site:jobs.polymer. co" "site:"*.breezy. hr" <-- use the * wildcard instead of the company name "site:"*.wd1.myworkdayjobs. com" Google doesn't like these queries and you'll be prompted to confirm captchas. Good Luck finding your dream job. #careers #jobinterviews

DVA is not associated with this job post. Senior Staff Fullstack Engineer, Canada & USA https://lnkd.in/gXEaqxm7 What you’ll do... Build back-end infra atop Google Cloud and assist on front-end experiences for a new product ideas within the Innovation Studio. Enable integrations with a variety of services including Google, Firebase, OpenAI and others. Work cross-functionally with other engineers, design and product management. Participate in code/design/architecture reviews; clearly communicate alternative viewpoints. Engage in team and project retrospectives so that you and your team can learn from mistakes and avoid them in the future. May lead daily standup with very light-weight project management as required #business #entrepreneurship #leadership #strategy #innovation #growth #success #management #marketing #sales #finance #productivity #networking #professionaldevelopment #career #teamwork #startup #smallbusiness #digitalmarketing #branding #customerexperience #technology #economy #investing #consulting #entrepreneurmindset #leadershipdevelopment #businessowner #worklifebalance #corporateculture

Hiring a developer doesn't always solve any problems. It can create more problems. If you airdrop someone into your company, do they know what to do? One of the hardest parts about development is ensuring you have the right product strategy, roadmap, and requirements for your team. Bringing in help without a map will leave them lost. You more likely have to hire expert consultants who can figure all that out with zero help.

Hello LinkedIn friends and community 👋 Two months ago, as part of a 25% RIF at Unity, I was let go from the SyncSketch team, along with my wonderful engineering manager Jenn and our amazing product designer Polina. I grew a lot in those 2.5 years, especially as we evolved from a team of 7 to 15 engineers distributed across CET to PST timezones.   ✅ What I bring  ⚆ 2.5 years full stack development experience in a remote startup  1️⃣ boosted team productivity by 50%  2️⃣ spearheaded cross-team deployment of observability tool 3️⃣ reduced open support tickets by 60% ⚆ 3 years in data analytics, diverse industries from healthcare tech to marketing and financial services 🔮 What I’m looking for  Mid-level full stack or backend leaning engineering role, in-person in the bay area 🌉 or US remote   💡If you’d like to help and can't refer me to an open role at your org, try: ⚆ scheduling a mock interview with me (https://lnkd.in/e_2D88Dy) ⚆ introducing me to an engineer / engineering manager / C-Suite exec (whether they are actively hiring or not) ⚆ commenting below ⚆ reposting; with or without your own comments ⚆ reacting to this post ❤️ Cheers to my first layoff (I’ve already grown my community so much, big thanks to Women Who Code and Leopard.FYI)   P.S. advice for navigating job loss below 🫂 I miss my coworkers - the board game nights, the inside jokes about websockets and the trauma bonding e-bike tour in the pouring rain. ❤️🩹 To fill the hole, I’ve jump started my own Job Search Council with Never Search Alone. Peer support circles are like ember mugs ☕, you won’t know you need ‘em till you have ‘em! Sign up for free at phyl.org

Job Search Hack! ⚠️ Some people asked me recently "Is there any other way to search for jobs other than using LinkedIn, or how can I use LinkedIn more efficiently?" This post is for you if you have similar questions in mind.🙂 For example, "I want to find... Senior Software Engineer position or Software Engineering Manager position from Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft Or Analyst role in the financial industry that allows me to work remotely" How would you search for those jobs? Copy and paste the boolean strings below and search on Google! Let's see what shows up in your dashboard!:) site:linkedIn.com/jobs ("Senior" OR "Manager" OR "Lead" OR "Head" OR "Director" OR "VP" OR "Vice President" OR "Principal" OR "Chief" OR "Expert") AND ("Software" OR "Python" OR "C++" OR "Java" OR "JavaScript" OR "HTML" OR "CSS") AND ("Google" OR "Amazon" OR "Apple" OR "Meta" OR "Microsoft") site:linkedIn.com/jobs ("Analyst") AND ("Finance" OR "Equity" OR "Investment" OR "Credit" OR "Financial" OR "Portfolio" OR "Treasury " OR "Derivatives") AND ("Remote" OR "Work from home") #remotejob #jobs

#hiring *Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Invoices*, Los Angeles, *United States*, fulltime #jobs #jobseekers #careers #LosAngelesjobs #Californiajobs #ITCommunications *Apply*: https://lnkd.in/gfFQyPE8 Job Description Square Invoices is the easiest way for merchants to close sales and collect payments remotely. Our customers rely on our products because they are well-designed, easy to use, and integrated with their business. We are a full-stack product oriented team, spanning across engineering, design, product, data science, and marketing. You'll contribute to the roadmap and strategy decisions and will play a critical role in helping the team accomplish our industry leading growth goals. On the Invoices Ecosystem team, we focus on supporting advanced workflows for upmarket sellers who tend to have a longer sales lifecycle compared to in person sales. Invoices is unique to Square in that we can flex our products to be used complementary to sellers main point of sale, or serve as a complete business and payments stack solution. Our team is focused, fast-moving, and rapidly growing with an abundance of growth and impact opportunities. We focus on building the best tools to help our merchants close sales and get paid quickly. We are doing this in an efficient and scalable way, by automating critical functions for our merchants. You will: Collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to design, build, and iterate on world-class product experiences, defining product scope and design. Be responsible for the entirety of your features; including API design, implementation, automated testing, and rollout. Hold yourself, and your teammates accountable to the standards of engineering and ethics that enables Square to safely move billions of dollars in payments and allow our customers to trust us with their sensitive data. Help empower a team of engineers by mentoring individuals, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the quality of design decisions and implementation by holding the team to a high standard. Partner with Web, iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features. Respond to customer feedback to improve our products. Build high availability and resilient systems which can accept and report payments no matter the network or device conditions.