Senior Android Engineer, Chat

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

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Does solving community engagement challenges motivate you? Come join the Android Chat team and help us build innovative solutions for millions of redditors all around the world!

The Reddit of today is built on top of communities (subreddits) where conversations are created daily on millions of different topics. However, the current experience lacks a real-time, casual environment that is more innate of a chat experience which is due to the forum-like structure of Reddit’s Posts and Comments. The Chat team is taking this problem head-on and has the ambitious goal to make synchronous conversations a core part of the Reddit community experience.

We believe that giving users a more casual way to communicate will unlock new ways for communities to grow.

We are hiring a Senior Android Engineer who can help us innovate to create the next Reddit chat. We move incredibly fast, have entrepreneurial spirit, are opinionated yet humbled by user feedback and back ourselves to deliver a quality product. We are seeking a like-minded engineer, who will work on a high-impact project with wide visibility within the company and join a team of brilliant engineers like yourself.

You’ll get a chance to contribute to the product and business strategy, in addition to technical challenges and work alongside product managers, user experience designers and business analysts.

The Role

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute product and business strategies and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Communicate effectively, within the team and across disciplines. Work closely with product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences.
• Contribute meaningfully to our team’s strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning our future. Don’t just come along for the ride.
• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.
• Foster a healthy engineering culture and collaborate with other engineers.

What We Are Looking For:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent technical expertise
• 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing Android mobile native applications at scale, using Java or Kotlin
• You are a strategic thinker who thrives on developing a long-term technical foundation and has a passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves people’s lives globally.
• A track record of leading large projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
• Experience with modern Android development frameworks such as Jetpack Compose and Kotlin coroutines.
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, data teams to deliver great user experiences.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k Match

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

• Generous paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

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)…