Senior Android Engineer, Apps Platform

Senior Android Engineer, Apps Platform (Performance)

New York City, NY

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

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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. It’s 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  Reddit’s 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.

• 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, well‑designed software that improves people’s lives globally.
• Experience building at least one amazing Android app with a team from start to shipment.

• Build experiences and create the patterns for Reddit’s 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.

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

401k Match

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

Paid Volunteer time off

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

Base pay range for this position is:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

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