3 months ago

Staff Android Engineer (Clients Platform)

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Job Summary

Senior Android Engineer to shape Reddit’s Android platform, guiding design across navigation, networking, storage, and observability for a large multi-team codebase. You’ll enhance client health, developer tooling, and AI-assisted reviews while mentoring other Android engineers and collaborating with iOS/Web, backend, data, QE, and product teams to deliver a fast, reliable Reddit Android experience.

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Shape Android platform architecture across navigation, networking, storage, experiments, logging, and metrics to enable reuse of patterns by product teams
•Build and evolve Android client health and observability (events, traces, dashboards) to convert signals into actionable insights
•Improve Android developer experience by designing tools, workflows, and CI integrations for fast and safe development, testing, and release
•Define guardrails (lint/static analysis, tests, AI-assisted reviews) to catch issues early
•Collaborate cross-functionally with Android, backend, data, QE, and product teams to design end-to-end solutions

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health Insurance401kParental Leave

Key Requirements

•5+ years building user-facing Android applications in Kotlin and/or Java, including owning substantial features or subsystems end-to-end
•Experience working in a large Android codebase with a sizable developer community (~100+ engineers) and millions of DAUs
•Strong background in Android platform/infrastructure work: shared libraries/frameworks, experiments/logging, navigation, startup/session orchestration, or core networking/caching
•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

Experience:5+ years

Languages:English

Tech Stack:KotlinJavaKotlin coroutinesFlowsDIDaggerHiltCIObservabilityAI

Company Brief

Operates Reddit, a large online community and discussion platform where users submit content, comment, and vote across topic-based communities (subreddits); monetizes via advertising, premium subscriptions, and awards.

Industry: Digital Media

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2005

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