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About Reddit
Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.
Reddit currently has
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Listed pay typically runs
$194,600–$272,400
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The Senior Android Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering joins the Reddit Consumer Engineering organization to build and scale products for content discovery and community engagement. This role involves leading projects through the full development lifecycle, from technical design to implementation and ongoing improvement. You will build user-facing Android experiences, improve architecture, performance, and reliability, and partner with cross-functional teams to translate technical capabilities into intuitive features. The position requires professional experience developing native Android applications using Kotlin and a deep understanding of Android frameworks. Key skills include debugging, performance optimization, and designing scalable features from APIs to UI. Candidates should be familiar with Jetpack Compose, accessibility, Media3, ExoPlayer, and ML-integrated products. The work focuses on solving core user journey problems like authentication, notifications, and content discovery.
Build and evolve user-facing Android experiences for content discovery and community engagement.
Lead projects through the full development lifecycle from product definition to ongoing improvement.
Partner with cross-functional teams to translate technical capabilities into intuitive user experiences.
Improve Android architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, and engineering standards.
Write idiomatic, readable, and testable code using Kotlin and Android frameworks.
Design mobile systems and interfaces while evaluating architectural tradeoffs for scalable features.
Utilize experimentation, feature flags, and analytics to measure product and quality-of-experience metrics.
Mentor teammates and drive cross-functional technical initiatives.
What we're looking for
Professional experience developing native Android applications with Kotlin.
Strong understanding of Android frameworks and application architecture.
Ability to write idiomatic, readable, reusable, and testable code.
Skills in debugging, performance optimization, reliability, and maintainability.
Experience designing mobile systems and interfaces and evaluating architectural tradeoffs.
Experience with experimentation, feature flags, instrumentation, analytics, and product metrics.
Familiarity with Jetpack Compose, Android accessibility, Media3 or ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, HLS or DASH, recommendation systems, or ML-integrated products (preferred).
Android
Kotlin
Java
Jetpack Compose
Android SDK
Android Studio
RESTful APIs
Unit Test
Test Automation
Version Control Systems
Bluetooth
Sensors
iOS
Web Applications