Staff Android Engineer, Brand Ad Formats

EngineersOfAI; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Staff Android Engineer on the Brand Ad Formats team to turn Video Ads into an industry-leading offering for brand advertisers. You will own the technical strategy, shape the Android architecture, and deliver high-performance, scalable formats in close collaboration with Product and Design.

You will drive the full development lifecycle from discovery through testing and deployment, mentor senior engineers, establish best practices for design, testing, and operations, and apply

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with staff-level experience.
• 3+ years of Android/Kotlin with production apps.
• Experience in ad tech and rich-media mobile experiences.
• Product-minded with emphasis on UI polish and performance.
• Strong system design for fault-tolerant client-side systems.
• Experience using GenAI tools to boost productivity.
• Experience designing and interpreting product metrics and experiments.

Responsibilities

• Video Ads tech lead, partnering with Product and Design to drive roadmap.
• Set Android best practices and provide design reviews for ad formats.
• Lead full development lifecycle from discovery to deployment.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality and operational excellence.

Skills

Kotlin

Android development

Ad Tech experience

UI performance focus

GenAI tooling

Experimentation and analytics

System design

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

About the Team: The Brand Ad Formats team drives the development of ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact. They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users. By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes. The team is building fully customizable interactive formats and AI-driven ads that incorporate User-Generated Content (UGC). Moving forward, we will be doubling down on Video Ads, with the goal of turning Reddit into an industry leader and a ‘must buy’ for advertisers to promote video content.

As a Staff Android Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy to turn Reddit’s Video Ads into a premier offering for brand advertisers. You will also build and provide technical guidance on new reddit-unique ad formats on Android, ensuring they are high performance, high quality and scalable.

What you’ll do:

• Video Ads Tech Lead: Partner closely with Product and Design to build a roadmap that will transform our Video Ads format into an industry leader in the space, and drive the technical design and execution of projects that turn the roadmap into reality.
• Technical Strategy: Provide guidance to the team working on building video ads as well as reddit-unique ad formats that scale to millions of users, by establishing Android best practices and providing design reviews.
• Full-Cycle Leadership: Drive the entire development lifecycle—from early-stage discovery and prototyping to testing, data-driven experimentation, and deployment.
• Raise the Bar: Mentor senior engineers across teams in ad formats and establish best practices for design, testing and operational excellence, while also leading by example in understanding and advocating for our customers.

What we expect from you:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience (Staff level seniority).
• Android Mastery: (Minimum of 3+ years) Deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android architectural patterns. Completed 4+ Android development projects from ideation to deployment in production.
• Prior experience in Ad Tech, building highly interactive/rich-media mobile experiences.
• Product Mindset: Proven track record of delivering user-facing features where UI polish and performance are critical.
• System Design: Ability to navigate complex, data-intensive environments and build fault-tolerant client-side systems.
• AI: Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity.
• Experimentation/Analysis: Fluency working with product metrics, designing and analyzing experiments with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc.
• Versatility: An