Staff Software Engineer, Android Design System

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

United States only

From the listing details: Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - United States"

Employer listed it 4 days ago · Added 10 days ago

First listed 10 days ago and still open.

Salary

$217k to $304k per year

Location

United States only

Timezone

US East

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

What the advert says

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Working hours: Not mentioned in the advert
Where you can work from: To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state.
Contract: We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.
Experience asked for: Not mentioned in the advert
Pay: 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.

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - United States"
Job description states: "U.S.-based"

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About the role

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 .

This 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

Requirements

·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

How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Reddit, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 11d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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