Senior Android Engineer, Media Foundation

The Media Foundation’s mission is simple: Delivering seamless, high-performance media experiences that meet and exceed industry standards, ensuring unparalleled engagement across all platforms at Reddit. Media is the most engaging medium on Reddit, whether it’s for posts, comments, or ads. This is a pivotal role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit's media experience across all devices. We are seeking a stellar engineer with a deep understanding of scalable media solutions who can drive innovation, deliver top-tier video experiences to our users, and guide other teams in seamlessly integrating with our video API. This role not only involves building robust media capabilities but also contributing to the growth and strength of our media engineering team as Reddit continues to scale.

This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

What You Will Do

• Build novel media products and features that our millions of users will love.
• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Kotlin with 5+ years of experience within Android development.
• Deep understanding of Android SDK, Lifecycle, System components, Jetpack Compose, animations, MVVM/MVI, Clean architecture & Unit/UI Testing, Multithreading.
• Embracing the challenges of building data intensive, highly responsive, and fault tolerant apps in the constrained environment of a smartphone.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation. 

Nice To Have

• Additional knowledge around GraphQL, REST, HTTP basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs is a plus.
• Knowledge of ExoPlayer for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities.
• A proven track record of using data and performance metrics to relentlessly optimize apps, moving the needle from "good" to "world-class" user experiences.
• Hands-on experience optimizing video player performance or building feature-rich products on top of core media playback components.

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