Staff Android Engineer, Home Experience

The Home Experience team is responsible for one of the highest traffic pages on the platform: the Home feed on the Reddit apps and website. Home is both a destination and entrypoint for almost all Reddit journeys, and we know a smooth, intuitive, and delightful experience is critical to Reddit’s success and appeal. You’ll be working with the immense scale of hundreds of millions of users to help them explore Reddit and provide them with excellent feeds.

This role can be remote within the United States, Canada, or Europe, or can be a hybrid model if near an office. Offices are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Madrid and Berlin. 

What You’ll Do:

• Be the technical lead for a high-caliber, inclusive team of engineers across the organization.
• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to design and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Work alongside a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Drive step-function improvements in developer workflows, implement best practices, and mentor engineers across the organization..
• Participate in the full development cycle: design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be writing and reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks, and ensuring successful delivery of key projects.
• You will be a main driver in the planning, development, and implementation across Reddit’s Android architecture in conjunction with numerous partner teams, identifying and delivering on major opportunities.
• Enable a culture of metrics led execution, with a focus on operational excellence and system observability.
• Partner cross-functionally and with senior leadership on our strategic roadmap, driving engineering and product bets that will bring Home to the next level.

Who You Might Be:

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing applications
• Fluency working with product metrics, designing and analyzing experiments with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc.
• Software development experience in Kotlin for Android, familiarity with GraphQL.
• Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity.
• Experience working with ML engineering teams and integrating ML solutions is a plus.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule for the team.
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong focus on user experience and usability. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuiti…