Senior Android Engineer, Media Foundation

United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
This is a pivotal role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit's media experience across all devices.
We are seeking a stellar engineer with a deep understanding of scalable media solutions who can drive innovation, deliver top-tier video experiences to our users, and guide other teams in seamlessly integrating with our video API.
This role not only involves building robust media capabilities but also contributing to the growth and strength of our media engineering team as Reddit continues to scale.
You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
experience within Android development.
Deep understanding of Android SDK, Lifecycle, System components, Jetpack Compose, animations, MVVM/MVI, Clean architecture & Unit/UI Testing, Multithreading.
Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
Additional knowledge around GraphQL, REST, HTTP basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs is a plus.
Knowledge of ExoPlayer for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities.
Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI).

Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Gender-Affirming Care
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave Pay Transparency:
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.
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 provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary 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.
The base salary range for this position is: $167,000 — $267,000 USD

It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
Media is the most engaging medium on Reddit, whether it’s for posts, comments, or ads.
This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world. What You Will Do
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.
Embracing the challenges of building data intensive, highly responsive, and fault tolerant apps in the constrained environment of a smartphone.
Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.