Senior Android Engineer, Reddit

• We are seeking a stellar engineer with a deep understanding of scalable media solutions who can drive innovation, deliver top-tier video experiences to our users, and guide other teams in seamlessly integrating with our video API
• Expertise in Kotlin with 5+ years of experience within Android development
• Deep understanding of Android SDK, Lifecycle, System components, Jetpack Compose, animations, MVVM/MVI, Clean architecture & Unit/UI Testing, Multithreading
• Embracing the challenges of building data intensive, highly responsive, and fault tolerant apps in the constrained environment of a smartphone
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
• Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation

Desirable

• The Media Foundation’s mission is simple: Delivering seamless, high-performance media experiences that meet and exceed industry standards, ensuring unparalleled engagement across all platforms at Reddit
• Media is the most engaging medium on Reddit, whether it’s for posts, comments, or ads
• This is a pivotal role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit's media experience across all devices
• This role not only involves building robust media capabilities but also contributing to the growth and strength of our media engineering team as Reddit continues to scale
• This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world
• Build novel media products and features that our millions of users will love
• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities