Android Software Engineer, Reddit
Consumer Engineering
$164.2-229.9k
+ Equity
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$164.2-229.9k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 130,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment and sports, to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.
The platform attracts over 120 million daily users and billions of monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddit stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.
Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation, connection and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
- Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal & professional development funds
- Paid volunteer time off
- Workspace & home office benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO & Founder)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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