Senior Android Engineer, Apps Platform

Reddit; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,800 - 267,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Match

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Paid Volunteer Time Off

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Android Developer, where you'll enhance user experiences on a widely recognized platform. In this role, you'll leverage your expertise in Java or Kotlin to build innovative features and improve the Android app's core functionalities. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex challenges and contribute to a dynamic, data-driven environment. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving tech landscape while enjoying comprehensive benefits and a supportive workplace culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Android development with expertise in Java or Kotlin.
• Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software.

Responsibilities

• Build experiences for Reddit’s official Android app to improve core flows.
• Partner across teams to innovate and implement solutions.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Android Development

Software Engineering Fundamentals

Data Intensive Applications

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Apps Platform works as a platform team for all other mobile engineers at Reddit to build on top of. Our customers are primarily other engineers. It’s our job to help improve developer efficiency by providing libraries/APIs/frameworks, monitoring performance, building shared components, improving build tools, etc. In the codebase, we own the core components of the app such as the networking and caching stack. We set the direction in which the codebase builds towards by defining which design patterns and technologies to employ at Reddit. We also frequently moonlight as the ‘catch-all’ team for features that don’t fit neatly into another team’s roadmap. As Reddit’s greater engineering team scales up, Apps Platform is also responsible for innovating and building new processes and methods to continuously support a greater number of customers without linearly scaling the team size as well.

What We’re Working On

• Driving new features from end-to-end through prototyping, validation, implementation, launch, and continuous iteration.
• Building the technical foundation for future features and experiences.
• Retrofitting the Reddit Android codebase to utilize modern technologies and best practices

What We Are Looking For

• Expertise in Java or Kotlin with 5+ years of experience within Android development.
• Sound software engineering fundamentals.
• Embracing the challenges of building data intensive, highly responsive, and fault tolerant apps in the constrained environment of a smartphone.
• Willingness to buck trends and learn new ways to build software.
• Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves people’s lives globally.
• Experience building at least one amazing Android app with a team from start to shipment.

Responsibilities:

• Build experiences and create the patterns for Reddit’s official Android app that improve our core flows like browsing posts, commenting and creating content.
• Partner across product, design, and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions to complex challenges.
• Participate in the full Android development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k Match

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

• Generous paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800—$267,100 USD

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, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.