Senior Android Software Engineer, Emerging Markets

Reddit; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media platform is seeking an experienced Android Developer to design and develop user-facing mobile applications. The role requires a minimum of 5 years of professional Android development experience, strong communication and organizational skills, and a champion for best practices in software development. Benefits include a pension scheme, private medical and dental plans, and flexible vacation options. Join a team focused on international growth and innovation.

Benefits

Pension Scheme

Private Medical and Dental Scheme

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Workspace benefit for home office

Personal & Professional development funds

Family Planning Support

Commuter Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time experience developing user-facing Android applications.
• Champion of software engineering best practices like unit testing.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks.
• Excellent communication skills in remote environments.
• Experience with modern Android frameworks like Jetpack Compose.
• Ability to design maintainable APIs is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features for users to support international growth.
• Communicate effectively within the team and across disciplines.
• Participate in product reviews and provide technical insight.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: design, development, and launch.
• Mentor engineers to grow their technical expertise.
• Continuously improve technical and non-technical abilities.

Skills

Android development

Java

Kotlin

Unit testing

CI/CD

Excellent communication

Organizational skills

GraphQL

Job description

Overview

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.

The Emerging Markets product team works on high impact initiatives to fuel Reddit international growth in markets like India, Brazil, the Philippines etc. You will work on product experiences that help users discover and engage with their communities to daily active users growth. Your work will help the next 500 million Redditors find communities, belonging, and empowerment on Reddit.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features, experiments and products for millions of users to support our international growth.
• Communicate effectively, within the team and across disciplines. Work closely with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences.
• Contribute meaningfully to our team’s strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning our future. Don’t just come along for the ride.
• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.
• 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 engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

What we are looking for

• Minimum 5+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing Android mobile native applications at scale, using Java or Kotlin
• You’re a champion of software engineering best practices such as unit/integration/end-to-end testing, design documents, CI/CD, A/B testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with modern Android development frameworks such as Jetpack Compose and Kotlin coroutines.
• You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You have a strong drive to create value, whether for users or the company.
• Additional knowledge around GraphQL, REST, HTTP basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs is a plus.

Benefits

• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical and Dental Scheme
• Life Assurance, Income Protection
• Workspace benefit for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Commuter Benefits
• 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 [e-mail].