Reddit, Inc. operates a social media platform built around thousands of user-created communities. People use Reddit to share posts, discuss breaking news and specialized interests, and shape conversations through comments and votes. With a global user base and a team of 501–1,000 employees, the company works at the intersection of media, marketing, and online community engagement.
Staff Android Platform Engineer
Set technical direction for Reddit’s Android platform and guide its growth at scale. Improve client health, developer workflows, architecture, and AI-assisted engineering.
United States$217,000 – $303,900 / year
RemoteFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredAndroid EngineerSoftware EngineerDescription
- Set technical direction for Reddit’s Android platform.
- Lead cross-team work across a large, multi-team Android codebase.
- Guide platform decisions to support the next 100 million-plus daily active users.
- Shape developer experience strategy to speed up builds and tests and make releases safer.
- Design the foundations for Android client health and observability, including events, traces, and dashboards.
- Promote AI-assisted tools and workflows for developers and agents.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers.
- Strengthen engineering standards through architecture reviews, documentation, and technical guidance.
- Turn unclear platform challenges into multi-quarter roadmaps.
- Align engineering partners and contribute hands-on from design and implementation through rollout and adoption.
Requirements
- At least five years of software development experience, including three or more years building Android applications.
- A record of leading complex Android initiatives from defining the problem 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 or infrastructure work, such as shared libraries or frameworks, experiments and logging, navigation, startup and session orchestration, or core networking and caching.
- Strong systems thinking and practical problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated measurable gains in app reliability, performance, or developer productivity.
- Ability to influence without formal authority and build agreement across engineering, product, design, and data teams.
- Ability to explain technical strategy and trade-offs clearly.
- Practical use of AI in engineering workflows, such as code generation, refactoring, static analysis, or CI checks, with measurable benefits.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage and income replacement programs.
- 401(k) plan with employer matching.
- Global benefits tailored to lifestyle, including workspace, professional development, and caregiving support.
- Family planning support.
- Gender-affirming care.
- Mental health and coaching benefits.
- Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
- Generous paid parental leave.
- Equity in the form of restricted stock units.
- Commission may be available depending on the position offered.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Option to opt out of interview recording.