Senior Android Engineer, Media Foundation

Remote - United States · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$167k-$267kDetected 14 days ago

KotlinAndroidJetpack ComposeGraphQLRESTA/B TestingProduct StrategyCommunicationMentoringOrganizational Skills

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

Build novel media products and features that our millions of users will love.
Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy.
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.
This role not only involves building robust media capabilities but also contributing to the growth and strength of our media engineering team as Reddit continues to scale.
This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.
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Expertise in Kotlin with 5+ years of experience within Android development.
Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
Deep understanding of Android SDK, Lifecycle, System components, Jetpack Compose, animations, MVVM/MVI, Clean architecture & Unit/UI Testing, Multithreading.
Embracing the challenges of building data intensive, highly responsive, and fault tolerant apps in the constrained environment of a smartphone.
Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation.

Knowledge of ExoPlayer for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities.

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.

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.

We are seeking a stellar engineer with a deep understanding of scalable media solutions who can drive innovation, deliver top-tier video experiences to our users, and guide other teams in seamlessly integrating with our video API.

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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