Reddit

Senior Android Engineer, Design System

Reddit$190K — $267K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on cross-functional projects
  • Proven experience in building and maintaining shared UI infrastructure like design systems or component libraries
  • Strong skills in modern Android development using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
  • Expertise in UI architecture, scalable component design, and performance optimization
  • Knowledge of accessibility best practices and the desire to improve accessibility in products
  • Demonstrates Reddit's core value of 'Evolve' by seeking feedback and embracing ambiguity.

Responsibilities

  • Evolve Reddit's design system by enhancing capabilities and developing reusable components
  • Collaborate with product teams, designers, and engineers to ensure effective UI infrastructure
  • Improve performance at scale through optimized Android architecture and development practices
  • Advance accessibility across the platform by building accessible components and documentation
  • Strengthen developer experience by enhancing tooling and platform specifications for UI consistency.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global benefits that support various lifestyles, including workspace flexibility and professional development
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave
Full Job Description
This is an Android role on Reddit's Design System Team. The mission of the Design System Team is to deliver a cohesive, modern and accessible experience across all of Reddit's platforms. As a Senior Android engineer on the Design System Team, you will help evolve Reddit's cross-platform design system and UI architecture that powers experiences across the company. You will build reusable components, improve platform capabilities, and help establish frontend patterns that enable product teams to ship high-quality experiences efficiently. This role has broad scope and impact, helping shape the future of frontend development at Reddit. **What You'll Do**: - **Evolve Reddit's cross-platform design system** by expanding its capabilities and developing higher-level reusable components that accelerate product development while maintaining consistency and quality. - **Collaborate cross-functionally** with product teams, designers, and engineers to ensure the design system and UI infrastructure effectively support real product needs. - **Improve performance at scale**, contributing to Android architecture, rendering patterns, and performance-focused development practices that make performance a built-in feature of the platform. - **Advance accessibility across the platform**, building accessible components, patterns, tooling, and documentation that help teams adopt accessibility best practices by default. - **Strengthen developer experience**, contributing to shared tooling, documentation, and platform improvements that help engineers build reliable, consistent UI across Reddit's products. **You Have:** - 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of leading cross-functional projects and delivering solutions with broad product impact. - Experience building and maintaining shared UI infrastructure, such as design systems, component libraries, or frontend infrastructure used across multiple teams. - Strong experience with modern Android development using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with expertise in UI architecture, scalable component design, and performance optimization using tools such as Instruments. - Familiarity with accessibility best practices and an interest in building components, tooling, or documentation that help teams ship accessible experiences by default. - You embody Reddit's core value of "Evolve" - you embrace ambiguity, seek feedback, and continuously improve your craft and the platform you help build. **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 **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 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. 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 salary 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.

About Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits", which cover topics such as news, politics, religion, science, movies, video games, music, books, sports, fitness, cooking, pets, and image-sharing. Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Although there are strict rules prohibiting harassment, it still occurs, and Reddit administrators moderate the communities and close or restrict them on occasion. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not considered Reddit employees. As of September 2021, Reddit ranks as the 19th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the U.S., according to Alexa Internet. About 42–49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9–8.2% and Canada at 5.2–7.8%. Twenty-two percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 years, and 14 percent of U.S. adults aged 30 to 49 years, regularly use Reddit. Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, with Aaron Swartz, in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications. In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto. Their investment valued the company at $500 million then. In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder. In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion. In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion.
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