Android Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

About the Position

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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/.

The base salary range for this position is:

$164,200 - $229,900 USD

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Equity in the form of restricted stock units
• Commission (depending on the position offered)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Generous time off for vacation and parental leave

About the Company

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. To bring community and belonging to everyone in the world, Reddit’s employees must represent communities and redditors on our platform.

Our vision at Reddit is to have a workforce representative of people with different perspectives and experiences, including but not limited to, gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, religion, and political views.

We invite you to self-identify across the identities below so we can better understand our talent pools and assess our effectiveness in attracting and recruiting people to Reddit from all backgrounds.

Answering these questions will not impact your application, nor will this information be shared with anyone making a hiring decision. For more information, please refer to our statement here.

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