Reddit - Senior Android Engineer (Clients Platform)
Requirements
• 5+ years building user-facing Android applications in Kotlin and/or Java, including owning substantial features or subsystems end‑to‑end. • 5+ years • Kotlin • Experience working in a large Android codebase with a sizable developer community (~100+ engineers or equivalent) and millions of DAUs, where platform decisions affect many teams. • large Android codebase • Strong background in Android platform/infrastructure work: shared libraries or frameworks, experiments/logging, navigation, startup/session orchestration, or core networking/caching. • Android platform/infrastructure • Solid foundations in modern Android architecture: Kotlin coroutines/Flows, DI (e.g., Dagger/Hilt), modularization, and testing (unit, integration, instrumentation). • Hands-on experience with observability tooling (events/traces, metrics, dashboards, alerting) and using data to debug and validate changes. • observability tooling • Ability to collaborate effectively across Android, backend, data, and QE, and to communicate trade‑offs and decisions clearly in writing and in person. • Practical experience applying AI to engineering workflows (code generation, refactoring, static analysis, or CI checks) with clear, measurable benefit.
Responsibilities
• Shape Android platform architecture across navigation, networking, storage, experiments, logging, and metrics so product teams can reuse proven patterns instead of reinventing them. • Build and evolve Android client health and observability (events, traces, dashboards) so teams can turn signals into actionable insights to fix and improve the user experience. • Improve Android developer experience by designing tools, workflows, and CI integrations that make it fast and safe to develop, test, and release code. • Define and operationalize guardrails (lint/static analysis, tests, and AI‑assisted reviews) that catch common issues early. • Partner cross‑functionally with Client Platforms peers (iOS/Web), backend, Data, QE, and Product to design end‑to‑end solutions grounded in real user and developer needs. • Mentor and Support Android engineers through design reviews, documentation, and education on platform capabilities, observability, and best practices.
Benefits
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs • 401k with Employer Match • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support • Family Planning Support • Gender-Affirming Care • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off • Generous Paid Parental Leave • Pay Transparency: • 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/. • To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. • The base salary range for this position is: • $190,800—$267,100 USD • In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. • During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.
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