Senior Engineering Manager, Android Platform

Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

The Client Platform Organization defines how we build, and more importantly, how we build with excellence. It’s not enough for Reddit just to work — it needs to work every time for every user on every device in every location. The Client Platform Organization invests in Software Architecture, Developer Experience, and Client Health in support of a better Reddit experience.

The Android Platform team sets the technical direction for Android at Reddit. Our customers are primarily other engineers. It’s our job to help improve developer efficiency by providing libraries, APIs, frameworks, monitoring performance, building shared components, improving build tools, etc. In the codebase, we own core components of the app such as the networking and caching stack. We set the direction in which the codebase builds by defining which design patterns and technologies to employ at Reddit.

As the Engineering Manager on Reddit’s Android Platform Team, you’ll use your engineering, collaboration, and leadership skills to deliver a performant experience to millions of Redditors, and lead the architectural decision-making of Reddit’s Android engineering organization. You'll collaborate cross-functionally to innovate and replace internal frameworks and tooling to help Reddit’s feature teams write performant code without a second thought. This is a critical role for enabling Reddit's future growth plans.

Responsibilities

• Build, hire, and lead a high-caliber team of Android mobile developers.
• Set and maintain latency, stability, and developer productivity goals for the mobile applications.
• Coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
• Set and support a metrics-driven culture, with efficient processes and strong transparency.
• Work with feature teams across the company to follow best practices and deliver high quality code for Reddit’s mobile applications.

Requirements

• Preferred: 4–8 years experience of leading a team of software engineers as a people manager.
• 8+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in mobile development or platform development roles.
• Strong experience in setting goals, execution, and accountability.
• Experience with Android native mobile platform and setting Android technical direction.
• Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages and mobile frameworks (examples listed: Kotlin, Java, Python, Go).
• Familiarity with networking and caching stacks, build tools, monitoring/performance practices, and design patterns for mobile platforms.
• Strong organizational and influential skills, ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Excellent communication, planning, and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) match.
• Family planning support and gender-affirming care.
• Mental health & coaching benefits.
• Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Paid volunteer time off.

Pay & Equity

• This posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, the role is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units. Final offers are determined by multiple factors including skills and depth of experience.
• Base pay range for this position: $232,500 - $325,500 USD.

Interview & Privacy

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• During interviews Reddit may collect identifiers, professional and employment-related information, and audio/video recordings to evaluate applications. Recordings are deleted after hiring decisions; consult Reddit's Candidate Privacy Policy for details.

Equal Opportunity

• Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans during the application and interview process.