# Staff Android Engineer, Brand Ad Formats

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: New York City, NY
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $217,000-$303,900 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/7847274
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fcc91466-d73

## Description

As a Staff Android Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy to turn 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.

### Responsibilities:

- Video Ads Tech Lead: 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.

- Technical Strategy: 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.

- Full-Cycle Leadership: Drive the entire development lifecycle,from early-stage discovery and prototyping to testing, data-driven experimentation, and deployment.

- Raise the Bar: 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.

### Requirements:

- 8+ years of software engineering experience (Staff level seniority).

- Android Mastery: (Minimum of 3+ years) 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.

- Product Mindset: Proven track record of delivering user-facing features where UI polish and performance are critical.

- System Design: Ability to navigate complex, data-intensive environments and build fault-tolerant client-side systems.

- AI: Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity.

- Experimentation/Analysis: Fluency working with product metrics, designing and analyzing experiments with exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase, etc.

- Versatility: An openness to work across the stack when necessary and explore innovative approaches (e.g., AI/ML integration).

- Entrepreneurial spirit: You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity.

- Excellent communication skills: You must be 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.

### Bonus Points:

- Experience working on Video Ads

- Experience working at a scaled peer company

- Experience with Jetpack Compose

## Skills

### Required
- Android
- Kotlin
- Android Architectural Patterns
- Ad Tech
- GenAI
- BigQuery
- HEX
- Firebase
- Product Metrics
- Experimentation
- System Design
- Fault-Tolerant Client-Side Systems

### Nice to have
- Jetpack Compose
- AI/ML Integration
- Innovative Approaches