Android Engineer — Consumer Experiences

Reddit, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSU)

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Generous time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking an experienced Android engineer to build native apps at scale using Kotlin. Join the Consumer Engineering org to shape user journeys across discovery, feeds, and engagement on Android.

You will own features from design to deployment, collaborate with product, data science, ML, and backend teams, foster code quality, and mentor teammates while improving performance, accessibility, and developer workflows.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve user-facing Android experiences that help people discover, consume, create, and engage with content and communities.
• Lead projects through the full development lifecycle, from product definition and technical design to implementation, experimentation, launch, and ongoing improvement.
• Partner with product, design, data science, ML, backend, and platform teams to shape strategy, translate technical capabilities into intuitive experiences, and deliver measurable user impact.
• Improve Android architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, developer workflows, and engineering standards while mentoring teammates and driving cross-functional technical initiatives.

Skills

Kotlin

Android architecture

Debugging

Performance optimization

Testable code

Tools

Jetpack Compose

ExoPlayer

Media3

Job description

Reddit, Inc. is seeking an experienced Android engineer to build native apps at scale using Kotlin. Join the Consumer Engineering org to shape user journeys across discovery, feeds, and engagement on Android.

You will own features from design to deployment, collaborate with product, data science, ML, and backend teams, foster code quality, and mentor teammates while improving performance, accessibility, and developer workflows.