Senior Android Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering
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
$191k to $267k per year
Location
United States only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Work from home
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- Job description states: "U.S.-based"
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Before you apply
Experience: employer states
Written as a nice-to-have
- “Familiarity with Jetpack Compose, Android accessibility, Media3 or ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, HLS or DASH, recommendation systems, or ML-integrated products is a plus.”
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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 .
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.
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Requirements
- ·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.
Benefits
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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.
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