Senior Android Engineer: Scale Consumer Apps (Kotlin)

Reddit; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in RSUs

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Generous time off and parental leave

Job summary

Reddit's Consumer Engineering Android team is seeking an experienced Android engineer to craft user-facing experiences at scale using Kotlin. You will lead projects across the full lifecycle and collaborate with product, design, data science, ML, backend, and platform teams to deliver measurable user impact.

You will mentor teammates, improve architecture, performance, and reliability, and contribute to a culture of rigorous engineering standards.

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 development

Android architecture

Jetpack Compose

Performance optimization

Tools

ExoPlayer

Retrofit

Android Studio

Job description

Reddit's Consumer Engineering Android team is seeking an experienced Android engineer to craft user-facing experiences at scale using Kotlin. You will lead projects across the full lifecycle and collaborate with product, design, data science, ML, backend, and platform teams to deliver measurable user impact.

You will mentor teammates, improve architecture, performance, and reliability, and contribute to a culture of rigorous engineering standards.