Join Reddit as a Staff Software Engineer to enhance the Android Design System and improve user experiences across platforms.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 3 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Evolve Reddit’s cross-platform design system
- Collaborate with product teams and designers
- Improve performance at scale
- Advance accessibility across the platform
- Strengthen developer experience
Must have
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building shared UI infrastructure
- Strong experience with modern Android development
- Expertise in UI architecture and performance optimization
Nice to have
- Familiarity with accessibility best practices
Requirements
- Experience
- 6+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Software Engineer will focus on enhancing Reddit's cross-platform design system by developing reusable components and improving UI architecture. Key skills include extensive experience with modern Android development, particularly in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, along with a strong understanding of accessibility practices. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a background in leading cross-functional projects and a commitment to evolving design systems. The role offers a significant opportunity to impact frontend development across Reddit's diverse product offerings.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 16, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 16, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Mobile roles (median ~$190,000).
- Starts above 50% of 16 comparable staff mobile roles in United States we track (median $214,500 across 13 companies).
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, Android Design System role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $217,000–$303,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 6 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Android Design System role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Jetpack Compose, Kotlin.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Android Design System role at Reddit.
From the original posting
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 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.
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.
Pay Transparency:
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.
Standard company text repeated across Reddit's postings is omitted here.