Quick summary
- Work type
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- $217,000–$303,900 / yr
- Posted
- 76 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live today
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Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $198,000–$261,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $260k versus about $230k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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 89 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $216,700–$303,000 across 89 roles with salary data.
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At a glance
TL;DR · Staff Android Engineer, Brand Ad Formats
The Staff Android Engineer joins the Brand Ad Formats team to lead the technical strategy for transforming video ads into a premier offering for brand advertisers. You will drive the entire development lifecycle, from early-stage discovery and prototyping to deployment, while providing technical guidance on building high-performance, scalable, and reddit-unique ad formats. This role requires deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android architectural patterns to build rich-media mobile experiences. You will utilize tools like BigQuery, HEX, and Firebase to analyze product metrics and experiments. The work involves solving complex technical challenges in ad tech, specifically creating fully customizable interactive formats and AI-driven ads incorporating User-Generated Content. You will mentor senior engineers and establish best practices for design, testing, and operational excellence across the Android platform.
Skills
What you'll do
- Lead the technical strategy and roadmap to transform Reddit’s Video Ads into an industry-leading offering.
- Drive the technical design and execution of projects to build high-performance, scalable, and unique ad formats on Android.
- Provide technical guidance and design reviews to establish Android best practices for large-scale mobile systems.
- Manage the full development lifecycle from early-stage discovery and prototyping to testing and production deployment.
- Mentor senior engineers across teams on ad formats, design best practices, and operational excellence.
- Analyze product metrics and design experiments using tools like BigQuery, HEX, and Firebase to drive data-driven decisions.
- Build fault-tolerant client-side systems within complex, data-intensive environments.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience at a Staff level.
- Minimum of 3+ years of deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android architectural patterns.
- Completed 4+ Android development projects from ideation to production deployment.
- Prior experience in Ad Tech building highly interactive or rich-media mobile experiences.
- Ability to build fault-tolerant client-side systems in complex, data-intensive environments.
- Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity.
- Fluency in product metrics and designing experiments using tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase.
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working on Video Ads (preferred).
- Experience working at a scaled peer company (preferred).
- Experience with Jetpack Compose (preferred).
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