Staff Android Engineer, Android Platform
$217K–$304K
Remote - United States · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years software development experience, including 3+ years building Android applications.
About the job
Sets technical direction for Reddit’s Android platform, leading cross-team initiatives in app health, developer experience, and architecture while remaining hands-on through implementation and adoption.
What you'll do
- Lead platform technical decisions and multi-quarter initiatives across Reddit’s Android codebase.
- Improve developer workflows and release safety, and build client health and observability foundations.
- Mentor engineers, align cross-functional partners, and apply AI to developer and agent workflows.
What they ask for
- Experience delivering shared platform capabilities in a large, multi-team Android codebase.
- Deep expertise in Kotlin, Android lifecycle and concurrency, and modern Android technologies.
- Strong Android platform or infrastructure background and demonstrated improvements to reliability, performance, or developer productivity.
- Practical experience applying AI to engineering workflows with measurable benefit.
Pay
$217,000 — $303,900 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kotlin, Android, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin coroutines
AI focus
Champion AI-enhanced developer and agent workflows; apply AI to engineering workflows such as code generation, refactoring, static analysis, or CI checks, with measurable benefit.
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