Staff Android Engineer, Brand Ad Formats

Reddit•Chicago, IL

4h•Remote

About The Position

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, home to open and authentic conversations. With over 100,000 active communities and approximately 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is a major source of information. The Brand Ad Formats team focuses on developing ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact, creating high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions and memorable experiences for Reddit users. They deliver guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, supporting major brand initiatives and measurable outcomes. The team is currently building fully customizable interactive formats and AI-driven ads incorporating User-Generated Content (UGC), with a future focus on Video Ads to become an industry leader. As a Staff Android Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy to transform 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.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience (Staff level seniority).
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.
An openness to work across the stack when necessary and explore innovative approaches (e.g., AI/ML integration).
Must be 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.
An experienced technical leader with a strong track record of mentoring and uplifting team members technical skills and aptitude.
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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Partner closely with Product and Design to build a roadmap that will transform our Video Ads format into an industry leader in the space, and drive the technical design and execution of projects that turn the roadmap into reality.
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.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance