Senior Android Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering
$191K–$267K
Remote - United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
About the job
Build and scale native Android experiences that help Reddit users discover, consume, create, and engage with content and communities.
What you'll do
- Lead projects from product definition and technical design through implementation, experimentation, launch, and ongoing improvement.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to shape product strategy and deliver measurable user impact.
- Improve Android architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, developer workflows, and engineering standards; mentor teammates.
What they ask for
- Professional experience developing native Android applications with Kotlin and a strong understanding of Android frameworks and application architecture.
- Ability to write idiomatic, readable, reusable, and testable code, with strong debugging, performance optimization, reliability, and maintainability skills.
- Experience designing mobile systems and interfaces, evaluating architectural tradeoffs, and building scalable features from APIs through user-facing UI.
- Experience with experimentation, feature flags, instrumentation, analytics, and product or quality-of-experience metrics.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Jetpack Compose, Android accessibility, Media3 or ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, HLS or DASH, recommendation systems, or ML-integrated products.
Pay
$190,800 — $267,100 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Media3, ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, HLS, DASH
AI focus
May work with ML Engineers and build ML-integrated products; interview recording, transcription, and summarization by AI may occur in select roles and locations, with an option to opt out.
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