Senior Android Engineer, Media Foundation

About the role

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. The Media Foundation's mission is to deliver seamless, high-performance media experiences that meet and exceed industry standards, ensuring unparalleled engagement across all platforms at Reddit. This is a pivotal role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit's media experience across all devices.

Responsibilities

• Build novel media products and features that our millions of users will love.
• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers.
• Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Kotlin with 5+ years of experience within Android development.
• Deep understanding of Android SDK, Lifecycle, System components, Jetpack Compose, animations, MVVM/MVI, Clean architecture & Unit/UI Testing, Multithreading.
• Embracing the challenges of building data intensive, highly responsive, and fault tolerant apps in the constrained environment of a smartphone.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice To Have

• Additional knowledge around GraphQL, REST, HTTP basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs.
• Knowledge of ExoPlayer for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities.
• A proven track record of using data and performance metrics to relentlessly optimize apps, moving the needle from "good" to "world-class" user experiences.
• Hands-on experience optimizing video player performance or building feature-rich products on top of core media playback components.

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

Pay

The base salary range for this position is: $167,000—$267,000 USD. 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.