Android Software Engineer - Ad Formats

The Brand Ad Formats team drives the development of ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact. They focus on high-visibility awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users. By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes. Their work includes evolving existing formats and launching entirely new ones to keep Reddit’s ad offerings fresh and competitive.The team is working on multiple new formats including a fully customizable interactive ad format and an ad format that uses AI to incorporate User-Generated Content.

The Ad Formats team is seeking a skilled Android Engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the team.

Responsibilities

• Build Ad experiences and create patterns for Reddit’s Android app that enhance our ads’ performance and functionality.

• Collaborate across product design and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions for complex challenges.

• Engage in the full development cycle: design develop QA experiment analyze and deploy.

Required Qualifications

• Proficiency in Android engineering and languages such as Kotlin or Java with at least 3 years of experience in software development.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals.

• A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive highly responsive and fault-tolerant apps.

• An openness to explore innovative approaches to software development.

Bonus Points

• Experience working on ad tech.

• Able to work full stack.

Technologies used on the team include:

• Languages: Kotlin Java Go Python

• Frameworks: Thrift gRPC

• Datastores: Postgres DynamoDB BigQuery

• Tools: Kubernetes Argo Docker

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k with Employer Match

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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:

$190800—$267100 USD