Senior Android Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

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Senior Android engineer building scalable Kotlin experiences for Reddit’s community platform. Leading consumer product development, experimentation, architecture, and cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and evolve user-facing Android experiences for discovering, consuming, creating, and engaging with content and communities
  • Lead projects through the full development lifecycle, from product definition and technical design through implementation, experimentation, launch, and ongoing improvement
  • Partner with product, design, data science, ML, backend, and platform teams
  • Shape product strategy and translate technical capabilities into intuitive experiences
  • Deliver measurable user impact
  • Improve Android architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, developer workflows, and engineering standards
  • Mentor teammates
  • Drive cross-functional technical initiatives

Requirements:

  • Professional experience developing native Android applications with Kotlin
  • Strong understanding of Android frameworks and application architecture
  • Ability to write idiomatic, readable, reusable, and testable code
  • Strong skills in debugging, performance optimization, reliability, and maintainability
  • Experience designing mobile systems and interfaces
  • Experience evaluating architectural tradeoffs
  • Experience building scalable features from APIs through user-facing UI
  • Experience with experimentation, feature flags, instrumentation, analytics, and product or quality-of-experience metrics
  • Jetpack Compose, Android accessibility, Media3 or ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, HLS or DASH, recommendation systems, or ML-integrated products are a plus
  • Experience building and shipping consumer-facing native applications at scale
  • Must be based in the United States

Benefits:

  • Equity in the form of restricted stock units
  • Potential commission depending on the position offered
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) program with employer match
  • Generous vacation time off
  • Parental leave
  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans
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