Staff Software Engineer, Android, Developer Platform
Job Description
Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
“The front page of the internet," Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities. This role is for our Developer Platform team.
Reddit already has tens of thousands of creative developers building against our simple API, but we want to give them much broader abilities. Through the introduction of apps and plugins, we’re looking to transform members’ experiences and interactions. r/wallstreetbets should have stock tickers, r/photoshopbattles should have an image gallery, and r/nba should have live scores.
The team is working on the platform to make this happen, and we’re looking for someone to bring it to Android and mobile.
What you’ll do:
- Lay the system foundations for 3rd party developers to build cross-platform UI on Reddit.
- Build a delightful developer experience as well as consumption experience.
- Work as part of a small team (<5 people), contributing to a large iOS codebase (100+ engineers).
- Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and engineering counterparts
- Mentor and coach junior developers
Who we’re looking for:
- Experience in developing platform features for Android, using Kotlin.
- Experience with building UI using modern patterns (e.g. Jetpack Compose, MVVM)
- Track record of building alignment for large technical initiatives (100+ engineers)
- Great technical design doc skills
- Basic familiarity with Javascript (bonus: androidx.javascriptengine)
- Willingness to work on a zero to one team
Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly and will continue to be for the future.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Health benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
- 4+ months 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) 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: $198,200 – $297,300
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].
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Date Posted
05/17/2023
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