Staff Android Engineer, Home Experience

Details

Reddit is a community of communities. The Home Experience team owns one of the highest-traffic surfaces on the platform: the Home feed on Reddit apps and website. The team focuses on delivering a smooth, intuitive, and delightful feed experience at immense scale for hundreds of millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for a high-caliber, inclusive engineering team across the organization.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering partners to design and build new products and features for the Home feed.
• Drive improvements in developer workflows, implement best practices, mentor engineers, and review code and design docs.
• Participate in the full development cycle: design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
• Lead planning, development, and implementation across Reddit’s Android architecture in partnership with many teams.
• Enable a culture of metrics-led execution with a focus on operational excellence and system observability.
• Partner with senior leadership on the strategic roadmap and drive engineering/product initiatives.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing applications.
• Software development experience in Kotlin for Android and familiarity with GraphQL.
• Fluency working with product metrics and designing/analyzing experiments, with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc.
• Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity.
• Experience working with ML engineering teams and integrating ML solutions is a plus.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and keep projects on schedule.
• BS in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong focus on user experience and usability; advocate for users and have intuition for how people interact with software. Social product experience is a plus.
• Entrepreneurial, self-directed, and comfortable building in ambiguity.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration in a fully remote environment and with technical/non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs
• 401(k) 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

Pay Transparency and Additional Information

• Base salary range (U.S.-based): $217,000 - $303,900 USD
• This role may be eligible for equity (RSUs) and, depending on the position, may be eligible for a commission.
• Interviews for select roles/locations may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI; candidates can opt out prior to scheduled interviews.
• This role can be remote within the United States, Canada, or Europe, or hybrid if near an office. Offices are located in San Francisco; Los Angeles; Chicago; New York City; Toronto; London; Amsterdam; Madrid; and Berlin.