Android Software Engineer, Ad Formats

Posted 2 Days Ago
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New York, NY
Hybrid
191K-267K Annually
Mid level
Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
The Android Engineer will enhance ad experiences in Reddit's Android app, collaborating across teams and engaging in the full development cycle.
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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Brand Ad Formats team drives the development of ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact. They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users. By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes. Their work includes evolving existing formats and launching entirely new ones to keep Reddit’s ad offerings fresh and competitive.The team is working on multiple new formats including a fully customizable interactive ad format, and an ad format that uses AI to incorporate User-Generated Content.

The Ad Formats team is seeking a skilled Android Engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the 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
  • Proficiency in Android engineering and languages such as Kotlin or Java, with at least 3 years of experience in software development.

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals.

  • A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps.

  • An openness to explore innovative approaches to software development.

Bonus Points
  • Experience working on ad tech.

  • Able to work full stack.

Technologies used on the team include:
  • Languages: Kotlin, Java, Go, Python

  • Frameworks: Thrift, gRPC

  • Datastores: Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQuery

  • Tools: 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

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

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. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay 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. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:
$190,800$267,100 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

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, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Top Skills

Argo
BigQuery
Docker
DynamoDB
Go
Grpc
Java
Kotlin
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
Thrift
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,900 Employees
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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