What's the salary range?

Reddit lists $190,800–$267,100 for this role.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Kotlin.

What seniority level is this role?

Reddit targets senior candidates for this position.

Senior Android Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering at Reddit

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Senior Android Software Engineer at Reddit focuses on developing and enhancing user-facing Android applications that facilitate content discovery and community engagement. Proficiency in Kotlin and a solid grasp of Android frameworks are essential, along with experience in building scalable consumer applications. This position is ideal for a seasoned engineer who can navigate complex technical challenges while collaborating effectively across teams. The role also emphasizes mentorship and improving engineering standards within a dynamic consumer engineering organization.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 10, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 10, 2026.
Salary band is in line with the typical range for Mobile roles (median ~$185,483).
Starts above 36% of 14 comparable senior mobile roles in United States that list Kotlin we track (median $196,000 across 11 companies). See Kotlin salary trends
Kotlin appears in 43.9% of 41 comparable senior mobile roles in United States.

Quick facts

What's the salary range?: Reddit lists $190,800–$267,100 for this role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Kotlin.
What seniority level is this role?: Reddit targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Senior Android Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering role at Reddit.

From the original posting

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Android Software Engineers in Consumer Engineering work with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Backend Engineers, and other mobile engineers to build, experiment with, and scale the experiences that help hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage with Reddit.

This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including:

Core Product & Feeds: Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Contribution
Community & Presence: Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools
Growth & Engagement: Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding
Monetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization
Identity & Security: Account Management, Trust & Safety

What You’ll Do

Build and evolve user-facing Android experiences that help people discover, consume, create, and engage with content and communities.
Lead projects through the full development lifecycle, from product definition and technical design to implementation, experimentation, launch, and ongoing improvement.
Partner with product, design, data science, ML, backend, and platform teams to shape strategy, translate technical capabilities into intuitive experiences, and deliver measurable user impact.
Improve Android architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, developer workflows, and engineering standards while mentoring teammates and driving cross-functional technical initiatives.

Who You Might Be

An experienced Android engineer who has built and shipped consumer-facing native applications at scale using Kotlin.
A strategic, product-minded partner who connects technical decisions to user and business outcomes and can lead through ambiguity.
A clear and collaborative communicator who can explain complex tradeoffs, influence stakeholders, and build alignment across teams.
A curious, adaptable, and ownership-oriented teammate who embraces experimentation, learns from setbacks, improves processes, and helps others succeed.

Technical Qualifications

Professional experience developing native Android applications with Kotlin and a strong understanding of Android frameworks and application architecture.
Ability to write idiomatic, readable, reusable, and testable code, with strong skills in debugging, performance optimization, reliability, and maintainability.
Experience designing mobile systems and interfaces, evaluating architectural tradeoffs, and building scalable features from APIs through user-facing UI.
Experience with experimentation, feature flags, instrumentation, analytics, and product or quality-of-experience metrics. Familiarity with Jetpack Compose, Android accessibility, Media3 or ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, HLS or DASH, recommendation systems, or ML-integrated products is a plus.

Pay Transparency:

$190,800—$267,100 USD

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Senior Android Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

What You’ll Do

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