Android Software Engineer, Ads Formats

Reddit; Canada; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Matching

Workspace benefits for your home office

Personal & Professional development funds

Family Planning Support

Flexible Vacation

4+ months paid Parental Leave

Paid Volunteer time off

Job summary

A leading social media platform is seeking a skilled Android Engineer to join their New Ad Formats team. The role involves building ad experiences for the Android app, enhancing ad functionality and performance through innovative solutions. The ideal candidate has a strong background in Android engineering and is eager to tackle complex challenges in software development. This position offers comprehensive healthcare benefits, flexible vacation, and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Android engineering, with at least 2 years of experience in software development.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Willingness to tackle challenges of creating responsive and fault-tolerant apps.

Responsibilities

• Build Ad experiences for Reddit’s Android app that enhance ads’ performance and functionality.
• Collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams to innovate solutions for complex challenges.

Skills

Android engineering proficiency

Software development experience (2+ years)

Data-intensive app development

Innovative software development approaches

Tools

Kotlin

Job description

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 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence.

Reddit has a strong following of users who come to Reddit to find content and have deep discussions they are interested in. Reddit offers unique and high engagement conversations, we’re the home of conversation on the internet. Our communities achieve fun, exciting, quirky things when they band together. Over the last few years we have been growing multiple ads types and now are a sizable ads player. The Ad Formats team has multiple ad formats that it supports and new ones it innovates on continuously. This is where this team comes in to build new products from 0 to V1 and V2, establish product market fit and help scale it. This includes both products that are industry unique and products that are newer to Reddit but have established demand in the ads industry.

This team’s focus areas include:

• Building new formats with functionality that delights our advertisers
• Enable formats on various surfaces/placements
• Establish product market fit
• Iterate and pivot based on advertiser needs and product feedback
• Continually improving the technical foundations used for Ad Formats

The New Ad Formats team is seeking a skilled Android engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the New Ad Formats team.

Responsibilities:

• Build Ad experiences for Reddit’s Android app that enhance our ads’ performance and functionality.
• Collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions for complex challenges.

Required Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Android engineering, with at least 2 years of experience in software development
• Solid software engineering fundamentals
• A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps
• An openness to explore innovative approaches to software development

Bonus points:

• Proficient in the Kotlin programming language
• Experience working on ad tech
• Able to work full stack

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time 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 [e-mail].