Staff Android Engineer: Video Ads Platform Lead

EngineersOfAI; Northern (KY); Hybrid; 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 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