Senior Android Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

About the Role

The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Android Software Engineers in Consumer Engineering work with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Backend Engineers, and other mobile engineers across high-impact consumer teams:

• 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.

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.

Interview Process Note

In select roles and locations, 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.