Senior Android Software Engineer

Posted 7 Days Ago
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London, Greater London, England
Hybrid
Senior level
Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
As a Senior Android Software Engineer at Reddit, you will design and develop features and products for a global audience while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Your role involves improving existing features, contributing to team strategy, and mentoring other engineers, ensuring high software engineering best practices are followed.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Emerging Markets product team works on high impact initiatives to fuel Reddit international growth in markets like India, Brazil, the Philippines etc. You will work on product experiences that help users discover and engage with their communities to daily active users growth. Your work will help the next 500 million Redditors find communities, belonging, and empowerment on Reddit. 

How You'll Have Impact:

You will contribute to shaping and improving existing features. You’ll own projects from ideation to production instead of being stuck making small incremental gains on enterprise systems.  You’ll work with a super-talented, cross-functional team to solve hard problems to create experiences that users will love. We are a team of builders that value impact, personal growth, openness, and kindness.

Your role:

  • Design, build, and ship features, experiments and products for millions of users to support our international growth.
  • 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.
  • Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
  • 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.


What we are looking for:

  • Minimum 5+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing Android mobile native applications at scale, using Java or Kotlin
  • You’re a champion of software engineering best practices such as unit/integration/end-to-end testing, design documents, CI/CD, A/B testing, code reviews, and documentation.
  • Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
  • Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience with modern Android development frameworks such as Jetpack Compose and Kotlin coroutines.
  • You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You have a strong drive to create value, whether for users or the company.
  • Additional knowledge around GraphQL, REST, HTTP basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs is a plus.

Benefits:

  • Pension Scheme

  • Private Medical and Dental Scheme

  • Life Assurance, Income Protection

  • Workspace benefit for your home office 

  • Personal & Professional development funds

  • Family Planning Support 

  • Commuter Benefits

  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  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].

Top Skills

Java
Kotlin
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Reddit is a community of millions of users engaging in the creation of content and the sharing of conversation across tens of thousands of topics. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.

Why Work With Us

At Reddit, you’ll help build something that encourages millions around the world to think more, do more, learn more, feel more– and maybe even laugh more.

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