Staff Android Engineer, Android Platform

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Staff Android Engineer, Android Platform in USA

Reddit
Full time
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USA
10/12/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for Reddit’s Android platform as it scales to the next 100M+ daily active users.
Lead cross-team initiatives and create multi-quarter roadmaps for ambiguous Android platform problems.
Drive developer experience strategy to accelerate build and test cycles and improve release safety.
Architect Android client health and observability foundations involving events, traces, and dashboards.
Improve Android app reliability, performance, and developer productivity across teams.
Apply AI to developer and agent workflows, including code generation, refactoring, static analysis, and CI checks.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship through architectural reviews, documentation, and technical guidance.

Requirements

5+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years building Android applications.
Track record of leading complex Android initiatives from problem definition through delivery and sustained adoption.
Experience setting technical direction and delivering shared platform capabilities in a large Android codebase used by multiple teams and millions of daily active users.
Deep expertise in Kotlin, Android lifecycle and concurrency, Jetpack Compose, and Kotlin coroutines.
Experience with Android platform or infrastructure work such as shared libraries, frameworks, experiments, logging, navigation, startup or session orchestration, networking, or caching.
Evidence of measurable improvements to app reliability, performance, or developer productivity.
Ability to influence without formal authority, build consensus across engineering, product, design, and data partners, and communicate technical strategy clearly.
Practical experience applying AI to engineering workflows with measurable benefit.

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
401(k) with employer match.
Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, caregiving, and lifestyle needs.
Family planning support and gender-affirming care.
Mental health and coaching benefits.
Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
Generous paid parental leave.
The posting is marked #LI-Remote; benefits and logistics may vary for U.S.-based employees.
The role may include equity in the form of restricted stock units and, depending on the position offered, commission.

Salary: $217k - $304k/yr

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