Staff Android Engineer (Clients Platform)
Quick summary
- Work type
- On-site
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Salary
- $217,000–$303,900 / yr
- Posted
- today
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How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$219,425 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $260k versus about $192k 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 72 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $217,000–$303,900 across 66 roles with salary data.
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At a glance
TL;DR · Staff Android Engineer (Clients Platform)
As a Staff Android Engineer on Reddit’s Android Platform team, you will lead technical initiatives focusing on client health, developer experience, and app architecture. Your responsibilities include shaping the Android App's architecture for future scalability, enhancing developer workflows with AI-assisted tools, defining quality standards through static analysis and tests, and building observability frameworks to monitor user experiences. You must have 8+ years of software development experience, including 4+ years in Android application design and development, with expertise in Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Coroutines, and large-scale codebases serving millions of daily active users. Experience applying AI to engineering workflows is also essential for this role at Reddit’s scale.
Skills
What you'll do
- Own and shape the architecture of Reddit’s Android App to scale for future growth.
- Improve developer experience by designing efficient tools and CI integrations for code development and release.
- Define and implement guardrails using lint, static analysis, tests, and AI-assisted reviews.
- Build and evolve observability foundations for monitoring client health and user experiences.
- Apply AI thoughtfully to engineering workflows to enhance productivity and efficiency.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of software development experience with at least 4+ years in Android application design and development.
- Experience working on large codebases serving over 100 engineers and millions of daily active users.
- Mastery of modern Android development tools including Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Coroutines.
- Strong background in Android platform/infrastructure: shared libraries, startup/session orchestration, core networking/caching.
- Practical experience applying AI to engineering workflows with clear, measurable benefits.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
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