Staff Software Engineer, Android Design System

Reddit; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 217,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k match

Global benefits

Family planning

Gender-affirming care

Mental health coaching

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking an experienced Android engineer for the Design System Team to evolve cross-platform UI patterns, expand reusable components, and strengthen the shared design system powering Reddit's apps.

You will collaborate with product, design, and engineering colleagues to deliver scalable UI infrastructure, optimize performance at scale, advance accessibility, and improve developer experience across platforms.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with cross-functional impact.
• Experience building shared UI infrastructure like design systems or component libraries.
• Strong Android development with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, UI architecture know-how.
• Familiarity with accessibility best practices and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Evolve Reddit's cross-platform design system by expanding capabilities and reusable components.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams, designers, and engineers to support real product needs.
• Improve performance at scale, focusing on Android architecture, rendering patterns, and performance-focused practices.
• Advance accessibility across the platform by building accessible components, patterns, tooling, and docs.
• Strengthen developer experience with shared tooling, documentation, and platform improvements.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Android development

UI architecture

Performance optimization

Accessibility awareness

Tools

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Instruments

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, visitThis is an Android role on Reddit's Design System Team. The mission of the Design System Team is to deliver a cohesive, modern and accessible experience across all of Reddit's platforms.As an Android engineer on the Design System Team, you will help evolve Reddit's cross-platform design system and UI architecture that powers experiences across the company. You will build reusable components, improve platform capabilities, and help establish frontend patterns that enable product teams to ship high-quality experiences efficiently. This role has broad scope and impact, helping shape the future of frontend development at Reddit.

What You'll Do :

• Evolve Reddit's cross-platform design system by expanding its capabilities and developing higher-level reusable components that accelerate product development while maintaining consistency and quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams, designers, and engineers to ensure the design system and UI infrastructure effectively support real product needs.
• Improve performance at scale , contributing to Android architecture, rendering patterns, and performance-focused development practices that make performance a built-in feature of the platform.
• Advance accessibility across the platform , building accessible components, patterns, tooling, and documentation that help teams adopt accessibility best practices by default.
• Strengthen developer experience , contributing to shared tooling, documentation, and platform improvements that help engineers build reliable, consistent UI across Reddit's products.

You Have:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of leading cross-functional projects and delivering solutions with broad product impact.
• Experience building and maintaining shared UI infrastructure, such as design systems, component libraries, or frontend infrastructure used across multiple teams.
• Strong experience with modern Android development using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with expertise in UI architecture, scalable component design, and performance optimization using tools such as Instruments.
• Familiarity with accessibility best practices and an interest in building components, tooling, or documentation that help teams ship accessible experiences by default.
• You embody Reddit's core value of "Evolve" — you embrace ambiguity, seek feedback, and continuously improve your craft and the platform you help build.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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 visitTo provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary 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.

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