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 130
million daily active unique visitors,
Reddit is one of the internet’s
largest sources of information. For more
information, visit www.redditinc.com.




The Reddit Consumer Engineering
organization builds and scales the
products that Redditors use directly to
discover content, participate in
communities, and connect with others.
Sitting at the intersection of
large-scale distributed systems and core
user journeys, Android Software
Engineers in Consumer Engineering work
with Product Managers, Designers, Data
Scientists, ML Engineers, Backend
Engineers, and other mobile engineers to
build, experiment with, and scale the
experiences that help hundreds of
millions of users discover, join,
navigate, and engage with Reddit.
This centralized role hires across
several high-impact consumer teams,
including:


Core Product & Feeds: Home
Experience, Recommendations &
Content Discovery, Contribution


Community & Presence: Reddit Pro,
Youth Experience & Teen Safety,
Creator Tools


Growth & Engagement: Authentication,
Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO,
Onboarding


Monetization & Conversion: Paid User
Acquisition, Conversion Funnel
Optimization


Identity & Security: Account
Management, Trust & Safety


What You’ll Do


Build and evolve user-facing Android
experiences that help people discover,
consume, create, and engage with content
and communities.


Lead projects through the full
development lifecycle, from product
definition and technical design to
implementation, experimentation, launch,
and ongoing improvement.


Partner with product, design, data
science, ML, backend, and platform teams
to shape strategy, translate technical
capabilities into intuitive experiences,
and deliver measurable user impact.


Improve Android architecture,
performance, reliability, accessibility,
developer workflows, and engineering
standards while mentoring teammates and
driving cross-functional technical
initiatives.


Who You Might Be


An experienced Android engineer who has
built and shipped consumer-facing native
applications at scale using Kotlin.


A strategic, product-minded partner who
connects technical decisions to user and
business outcomes and can lead through
ambiguity.


A clear and collaborative communicator
who can explain complex tradeoffs,
influence stakeholders, and build
alignment across teams.


A curious, adaptable, and
ownership-oriented teammate who embraces
experimentation, learns from setbacks,
improves processes, and helps others
succeed.


Technical Qualifications


Professional experience developing
native Android applications with Kotlin
and a strong understanding of Android
frameworks and application architecture.


Ability to write idiomatic, readable,
reusable, and testable code, with strong
skills in debugging, performance
optimization, reliability, and
maintainability.


Experience designing mobile systems and
interfaces, evaluating architectural
tradeoffs, and building scalable
features from APIs through user-facing
UI.


Experience with experimentation, feature
flags, instrumentation, analytics, and
product or quality-of-experience
metrics. Familiarity with Jetpack
Compose, Android accessibility, Media3
or ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, HLS or DASH,
recommendation systems, or ML-integrated
products is a plus.

Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one
career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is
eligible to receive equity in the form
of restricted stock units, and depending
on the position offered, it may also be
eligible to receive a commission.
Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range
of benefits to U.S.-based employees,
including medical, dental, and vision
insurance, 401(k) program with employer
match, generous time off for vacation,
and parental leave. To learn more,
please visit
https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to
candidates, we share base salary ranges
for all US-based job postings regardless
of state. We set standard base pay
ranges for all roles based on function,
level, and country location, benchmarked
against similar stage growth companies.
Final offer amounts are determined by
multiple factors including, skills,
depth of work experience and relevant
licenses/credentials, and may vary from
the amounts listed below.The base salary
range for this position
is:$164,200—$229,900 USDIn select
roles and locations, the interviews will
be recorded, transcribed and summarized
by artificial intelligence (AI). You
will have the opportunity to opt out of
recording, transcription and
summarization prior to any scheduled
interviews.
During the interview, we will collect
the following categories of personal
information: Identifiers, Professional
and Employment-Related Information,
Sensory Information (audio/video
recording), and any other categories of
personal information you choose to share
with us. We will use this information to
evaluate your application for employment
or an independent contractor role, as
applicable.  We will not sell your
personal information or disclose it to
any third party for their marketing
purposes.  We will delete any
recording of your interview promptly
after making a hiring decision. 
For more information about how we will
handle your personal information,
including our retention of it, please
refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy
for Potential Employees and Contractors.
Reddit is proud to be an equal
opportunity employer, and is committed
to building a workforce representative
of the diverse communities we
serve.  Reddit is committed to
providing reasonable accommodations for
qualified individuals with disabilities
and disabled veterans in our job
application procedures. If, due to a
disability, you need an accommodation
during the interview process, please let
your recruiter know.