Staff Android Engineer, Brand Ad Formats

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

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, delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions. The team is building fully customizable interactive formats and AI-driven ads that incorporate User-Generated Content (UGC), and is doubling down on Video Ads to make Reddit an industry leader and a 'must buy' for advertisers.

As a Staff Android Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy to turn Reddit’s Video Ads into a premier offering for brand advertisers. You will also build and provide technical guidance on new reddit-unique ad formats on Android, ensuring they are high performance, high quality and scalable.

• Partner closely with Product and Design to build a roadmap that will transform our Video Ads format into an industry leader, and drive the technical design and execution of projects.
• Provide guidance to the team working on building video ads as well as reddit-unique ad formats that scale to millions of users, by establishing Android best practices and providing design reviews.
• Drive the entire development lifecycle—from early-stage discovery and prototyping to testing, data-driven experimentation, and deployment.
• Mentor senior engineers across teams in ad formats and establish best practices for design, testing and operational excellence, while also leading by example in understanding and advocating for our customers.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience (Staff level seniority).
• Minimum of 3+ years of deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android architectural patterns.
• Completed 4+ Android development projects from ideation to deployment in production.
• Prior experience in Ad Tech, building highly interactive/rich-media mobile experiences.
• Proven track record of delivering user-facing features where UI polish and performance are critical.
• Ability to navigate complex, data-intensive environments and build fault-tolerant client-side systems.
• Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity.
• Fluency working with product metrics, designing and analyzing experiments with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc.
• Openness to work across the stack when necessary and explore innovative approaches (e.g., AI/ML integration).
• Self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action.
• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong track record of mentoring and uplifting team members' technical skills and aptitude.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience working on Video Ads
• Experience working at a scaled peer company
• Experience with Jetpack Compose

Base salary range: $217,000—$303,900 USD. Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units. Comprehensive healthcare benefits, 401k with employer match, global benefit programs, family planning support, gender-affirming care, mental health & coaching benefits, flexible vacation & paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.