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Staff Android Engineer, Android Platform

Reddit· Platform Engineering
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Remote$217k - $303.9kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Staff Android Engineer on the Android Platform team responsible for setting technical direction, leading cross-team initiatives, and shaping the roadmap for a large multi-team Android codebase with a focus on client health, developer experiences, and app architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical decisions that will scale Reddit’s Android Platform to the next 100M+ DAUs, balancing long-term platform health with product delivery.
  • Drive Developer Experience strategy to accelerate build and test cycles and improve release safety across teams.
  • Architect Android Client Health and Observability foundations (events, traces, dashboards) to empower engineering teams to safeguard performance and reliability.
  • Champion AI supercharged developer and agent workflows.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers, elevating engineering standards across teams through architectural reviews, documentation, and technical guidance.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years software development experience with 3+ years building Android applications, with a 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, and modern Android technologies such as Jetpack Compose and Kotlin coroutines, with sound judgment about architectural tradeoffs and migration strategies.
  • Strong background in Android platform/infrastructure work: shared libraries or frameworks, experiments/logging, navigation, startup/session orchestration, or core networking/caching.
  • Strong systems thinking and hands-on problem solving, with 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 and tradeoffs clearly.
  • Practical experience applying AI to engineering workflows (code generation, refactoring, static analysis, or CI checks) with clear, measurable benefit.

Skills

Required:KotlinAndroid lifecycleJetpack ComposeKotlin coroutinesAndroid platform/infrastructure

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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