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Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Android Software Engineers in Consumer Engineering work with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Backend Engineers, and other mobile engineers to build, experiment with, and scale the experiences that help hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage with Reddit.\nThis centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including:\nCore Product & Feeds: Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Contribution\n\nCommunity & Presence: Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools\n\nGrowth & Engagement: Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding\n\nMonetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization\n\nIdentity & Security: Account Management, Trust & Safety\n\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild and evolve user-facing Android experiences that help people discover, consume, create, and engage with content and communities.\n\nLead projects through the full development lifecycle, from product definition and technical design to implementation, experimentation, launch, and ongoing improvement.\n\nPartner with product, design, data science, ML, backend, and platform teams to shape strategy, translate technical capabilities into intuitive experiences, and deliver measurable user impact.\n\nImprove Android architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, developer workflows, and engineering standards while mentoring teammates and driving cross-functional technical initiatives.\n\nWho You Might Be\nAn experienced Android engineer who has built and shipped consumer-facing native applications at scale using Kotlin.\n\nA strategic, product-minded partner who connects technical decisions to user and business outcomes and can lead through ambiguity.\n\nA clear and collaborative communicator who can explain complex tradeoffs, influence stakeholders, and build alignment across teams.\n\nA curious, adaptable, and ownership-oriented teammate who embraces experimentation, learns from setbacks, improves processes, and helps others succeed.\n\nTechnical Qualifications\nProfessional experience developing native Android applications with Kotlin and a strong understanding of Android frameworks and application architecture.\n\nAbility to write idiomatic, readable, reusable, and testable code, with strong skills in debugging, performance optimization, reliability, and maintainability.\n\nExperience designing mobile systems and interfaces, evaluating architectural tradeoffs, and building scalable features from APIs through user-facing UI.\n\nExperience 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.\n\nPay Transparency:\nThis job posting may span more than one career level.\nIn 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 https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.\nTo provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based 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.\nThe base salary range for this position is:\n$164,200—$229,900 USD\nIn select roles and locations, the 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.\nDuring the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.\nReddit 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. 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