Staff Android Engineer, Android Platform

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $217k - $303.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 Android Engineer

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Reddit, Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

Reddit, Inc. is a social media platform that acts as a hub for thousands of communities, where users can engage in diverse conversations ranging from breaking news to niche interests. It enables users to post, comment, and vote on content, fostering a vibrant online community. Millions of people globally connect and share their passions on Reddit, creating a dynamic environment for authentic human interaction.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction for Reddit’s Android Platform • Lead cross-team initiatives across a large, multi-team Android codebase • Lead technical decisions to scale Reddit’s Android Platform to the next 100M+ daily active users • Drive Developer Experience strategy to accelerate build and test cycles and improve release safety • Architect Android Client Health and Observability foundations, including events, traces, and dashboards • Champion AI-supercharged developer and agent workflows • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers • Elevate engineering standards through architectural reviews, documentation, and technical guidance • Turn ambiguous platform problems into multi-quarter roadmaps • Align engineering partners and remain hands-on from design and implementation through rollout and adoption

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years software development experience with 3+ years building Android applications • Track record of leading complex Android initiatives from problem definition through delivery and sustained adoption • Experience setting technical direction and delivering shared platform capabilities in a large Android codebase used by multiple teams and millions of daily active users • Deep expertise in Kotlin, Android lifecycle and concurrency, Jetpack Compose, and Kotlin coroutines • Experience with Android platform/infrastructure work, including shared libraries or frameworks, experiments/logging, navigation, startup/session orchestration, or core networking/caching • Strong systems thinking and hands-on problem solving • Evidence of measurable improvements to app reliability, performance, or developer productivity • Ability to influence without formal authority and build consensus across engineering, product, design, and data partners • Ability to communicate technical strategy and tradeoffs clearly • Practical experience applying AI to engineering workflows, such as code generation, refactoring, static analysis, or CI checks, with measurable benefit

🏖️ 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 • Equity in the form of restricted stock units • Potential commission depending on the position offered • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Interview recording opt-out option