Staff Android Engineer, Brand Ad Formats

at Reddit

USD 217,000-303,900 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

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Details

Reddit’s Brand Ad Formats team drives the development of ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact. They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users. The team is building fully customizable interactive formats and AI-driven ads that incorporate User-Generated Content (UGC). Moving forward, the team will be doubling down on Video Ads to make Reddit a ‘must buy’ for advertisers promoting video content.

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 the Video Ads format into an industry leader, and drive technical design and execution of projects that turn the roadmap into reality.
Technical Strategy: Provide guidance to the team building video ads and 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, establish best practices for design, testing, and operational excellence, and lead by example.

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 production deployment.
Prior experience in Ad Tech, building highly interactive/rich-media mobile experiences.
Product Mindset: proven track record 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 tools like BigQuery, HEX, and Firebase.
Versatility: openness to work across the stack and explore innovative approaches (e.g., AI/ML integration).
Entrepreneurial spirit: self-directed, innovative, biased towards action, and 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 track record of mentoring and uplifting team members.
Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus points

Experience working on Video Ads.
Experience working at a scaled peer company.
Experience with Jetpack Compose.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs (workspace, professional development, caregiving support)
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave