Staff Android Engineer, Brand Ad Formats

at Reddit

📍 United States

USD 217,000-303,900 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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Details

As a Staff Android Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy to turn Reddit’s Video Ads into a premier offering for brand advertisers. You will also build and provide technical guidance on new reddit-unique ad formats on Android, ensuring they are high performance, high quality and scalable.

Responsibilities

Video Ads Tech Lead: Partner closely with Product and Design to build a roadmap that will transform our Video Ads format into an industry leader in the space, and drive the technical design and execution of projects that turn the roadmap into reality.
Technical Strategy: Provide guidance to the team working on building video ads as well as reddit-unique ad formats that scale to millions of users, by establishing Android best practices and providing design reviews.
Full-Cycle Leadership: Drive the entire development lifecycle—from early-stage discovery and prototyping to testing, data-driven experimentation, and deployment.
Raise the Bar: Mentor senior engineers across teams in ad formats and establish best practices for design, testing and operational excellence, while also leading by example in understanding and advocating for our customers.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience (Staff level seniority).
Android Mastery: (Minimum of 3+ years) Deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android architectural patterns. Completed 4+ Android development projects from ideation to deployment in production.
Prior experience in Ad Tech, building highly interactive/rich-media mobile experiences.
Product Mindset: Proven track record of delivering user-facing features where UI polish and performance are critical.
System Design: Ability to navigate complex, data-intensive environments and build fault-tolerant client-side systems.
AI: Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity.
Experimentation/Analysis: Fluency working with product metrics, designing and analyzing experiments with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc.
Versatility: Openness to work across the stack when necessary and explore innovative approaches (e.g., AI/ML integration).
Entrepreneurial spirit: Self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action; thrives in ambiguity.
Excellent communication skills: Collaborate with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
Experienced technical leader with a strong track record of mentoring and uplifting team members technical skills and aptitude.
Strong organizational skills: prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule for the team.
BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.

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