Senior Android Engineer, Apps Platform
Senior Android Engineer, Apps Platform
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$ 190800 - 267100
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Job Description
Apps Platform works as a platform team for all other mobile engineers at Reddit to build on top of. Our customers are primarily other engineers. Its our job to help improve developer efficiency by providing libraries/APIs/frameworks monitoring performance building shared components improving build tools etc. In the codebase we own the core components of the app such as the networking and caching stack. We set the direction in which the codebase builds towards by defining which design patterns and technologies to employ at Reddit. We also frequently moonlight as the catchall team for features that dont fit neatly into another teams roadmap. As Reddits greater engineering team scales up Apps Platform is also responsible for innovating and building new processes and methods to continuously support a greater number of customers without linearly scaling the team size as well.
What Were Working On
- Driving new features from endtoend through prototyping validation implementation launch and continuous iteration.
- Building the technical foundation for future features and experiences.
- Retrofitting the Reddit Android codebase to utilize modern technologies and best practices
What We Are Looking For
- Expertise in Java or Kotlin with 5 years of experience within Android development.
- Sound software engineering fundamentals.
- Embracing the challenges of building data intensive highly responsive and fault tolerant apps in the constrained environment of a smartphone.
- Willingness to buck trends and learn new ways to build software.
- Passion for developing scalable welldesigned software that improves peoples lives globally.
- Experience building at least one amazing Android app with a team from start to shipment.
Responsibilities:
- Build experiences and create the patterns for Reddits official Android app that improve our core flows like browsing posts commenting and creating content.
- Partner across product design and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions to complex challenges.
- Participate in the full Android development cycle: design develop QA experiment analyze and deploy.
Benefits:
Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k Match
Family Planning Support
GenderAffirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
Generous paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off
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 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 provide greater transparency to candidates we share base pay ranges for all USbased 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 pay range for this position is:
$190800 $267100 USD
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
