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The Senior Android Engineer will build ad experiences for Reddit's Android app, focusing on performance and functionality, collaborating with teams to innovate solutions throughout the development cycle.
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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. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

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Reddit has a strong following of users who come to reddit to find content and have deep discussions they are interested in. Reddit offers unique and high engagement conversations, we’re the home of conversation on the internet. Our communities achieve fun, exciting, quirky things when they band together. Over the last few years we have been growing multiple ads types and now are a sizable ads player. The ad formats team has multiple ad formats that it supports and new ones it innovates on continuously. This is where this team comes in to build new products from 0 to V1 and V2, establish product market fit and help scale it. This includes both products that are industry unique and products that are newer to Reddit but have established demand in the ads industry. 

This team’s focus areas include:

  • Building new formats with functionality that delights our advertisers
  • Enable formats on various surfaces/placements
  • Establish product market fit
  • Iterate and pivot based on advertiser needs and product feedback
  • Continually improving the technical foundations used for Ad Formats

The New Ad Formats team is seeking a skilled Android engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the New Ad Formats 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:

  • Expertise in Android engineering with at least 4 years of experience
  • Proficient in the Kotlin programming language
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals
  • A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps within the constraints of a smartphone environment
  • An openness to explore innovative approaches to software development
  • Skilled at performing insightful code reviews, and receiving feedback themself

Bonus points:

  • Experience working on ad tech
  • Able to work full stack

Technologies used on the team include:

  • Languages: Kotlin, Go, Python
  • Frameworks: Jetpack Compose, Dagger/Anvil, Thrift, gRPC
  • Datastores: Room, Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQuery
  • Tools: Firebase Crashlytics, Develocity, Bitrise, Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

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


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BigQuery
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Room
Thrift

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