Staff Software Engineer, Android Design System
Remote - United States · Staff+ · Contract
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About the role
- 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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.
Responsibilities
- Evolve Reddit's cross-platform design system by expanding its capabilities and developing higher-level reusable components that accelerate product development while maintaining consistency and quality.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams, designers, and engineers to ensure the design system and UI infrastructure effectively support real product needs.
- Advance accessibility across the platform, building accessible components, patterns, tooling, and documentation that help teams adopt accessibility best practices by default.
- Strengthen developer experience, contributing to shared tooling, documentation, and platform improvements that help engineers build reliable, consistent UI across Reddit's products.
- Experience building and maintaining shared UI infrastructure, such as design systems, component libraries, or frontend infrastructure used across multiple teams.
- Familiarity with accessibility best practices and an interest in building components, tooling, or documentation that help teams ship accessible experiences by default.
- You embody Reddit's core value of "Evolve" - you embrace ambiguity, seek feedback, and continuously improve your craft and the platform you help build.
- This is an Android role on Reddit's Design System Team.
- As an Android engineer on the Design System Team, you will help evolve Reddit's cross-platform design system and UI architecture that powers experiences across the company.
- You will build reusable components, improve platform capabilities, and help establish frontend patterns that enable product teams to ship high-quality experiences efficiently.
Requirements
- Strong experience with modern Android development using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with expertise in UI architecture, scalable component design, and performance optimization using tools such as Instruments.
Compensation
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- 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.
Company info
- Reddit is a community of communities.
- The mission of the Design System Team is to deliver a cohesive, modern and accessible experience across all of Reddit's platforms.
Equal opportunity
- Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
- If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
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- You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
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