Staff Android Engineer, Developer Platform

Posted 13 Days Ago
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Chicago, IL
191K-267K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
In this role, you will lead mobile development efforts at Reddit, contributing to the technical design and development cycle. You will be responsible for shaping the mobile rendering engine and network stack, and you'll collaborate with other developers to deliver projects on schedule while continuously improving your skills.
Summary Generated by Built In

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Developer Platform’s mission is to empower our community of 3rd party developers and moderators to extend Reddit with useful and exciting features. 

We’ve built a Reddit-flavored SDK for server driven cross-platform UI, a compute platform, and lots of entry-points into Reddit products.

We’re looking for someone to lead our mobile efforts as a tech lead and major contributor. This is a high impact role where you will have the opportunity to shape our mobile rendering engine, data layer and network stack to power rich, real-time experiences. 

What You’ll Do:

  • Act as a tech lead for the mobile efforts, working in conjunction with other mobile developers.
  • Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing and writing both code and tech docs.
  • Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Who You Might Be:

  • 8+ years of experience in Android or mobile development
  • 1+ year of tech leadership experience
  • Experience working on a 0-1 team and product, inventing technologies to meet novel use cases
  • You love writing technical docs and convincing others of your approach.
  • Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
  • Exceptional communication skills with peers, cross-functional partners and leadership
  • Nice to have: Familiarity with Javascript bridge layers like JavascriptCore or Hermes
  • BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience. 

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

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. 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/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay 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.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800$267,100 USD

Reddit 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. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

Top Skills

Android
JavaScript
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Reddit is a community of millions of users engaging in the creation of content and the sharing of conversation across tens of thousands of topics. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.

Why Work With Us

At Reddit, you’ll help build something that encourages millions around the world to think more, do more, learn more, feel more– and maybe even laugh more.

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