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.
The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use
directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Sitting at
the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Android Software
Engineers in Consumer Engineering work with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML
Engineers, Backend Engineers, and other mobile engineers to build, experiment with, and scale
the experiences that help hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage
with Reddit.
This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including:
Core Product & Feeds: Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery,
Contribution
Community & Presence: Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools
Growth & Engagement: Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding
Monetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization
Identity & Security: Account Management, Trust & Safety
What You’ll Do
Build and evolve user-facing Android experiences that help people discover, consume, create,
and engage with content and communities.
Lead projects through the full development lifecycle, from product definition and technical
design to implementation, experimentation, launch, and ongoing improvement.
Partner with product, design, data science, ML, backend, and platform teams to shape strategy,
translate technical capabilities into intuitive experiences, and deliver measurable user
impact.
Improve Android architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, developer workflows, and
engineering standards while mentoring teammates and driving cross-functional technical
initiatives.
Who You Might Be
An experienced Android engineer who has built and shipped consumer-facing native applications
at scale using Kotlin.
A strategic, product-minded partner who connects technical decisions to user and business
outcomes and can lead through ambiguity.
A clear and collaborative communicator who can explain complex tradeoffs, influence
stakeholders, and build alignment across teams.
A curious, adaptable, and ownership-oriented teammate who embraces experimentation, learns from
setbacks, improves processes, and helps others succeed.
Technical Qualifications
Professional experience developing native Android applications with Kotlin and a strong
understanding of Android frameworks and application architecture.
Ability to write idiomatic, readable, reusable, and testable code, with strong skills in
debugging, performance optimization, reliability, and maintainability.
Experience designing mobile systems and interfaces, evaluating architectural tradeoffs, and
building scalable features from APIs through user-facing UI.
Experience with experimentation, feature flags, instrumentation, analytics, and product or
quality-of-experience metrics. Familiarity with Jetpack Compose, Android accessibility, Media3
or ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, HLS or DASH, recommendation systems, or ML-integrated products is a
plus.
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 visit
https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To 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.The base salary range
for this position is:$164,200—$229,900 USDIn select roles and locations, the interviews
will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the
opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled
interviews.
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representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing
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