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# Android engineer

- **Company:** reddit Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $217,000.0 - $303,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Android Software Development, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Kotlin, Material UI, Jetpack Compose, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8237636

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

As an 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., * 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.