Staff Android Engineer, Brand Ad Formats
$217,000–$303,900 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead the technical strategy to transform Reddit's Video Ads into a premier offering for brand advertisers by building and providing guidance on new, reddit-unique ad formats on Android. Establish Android best practices, conduct design reviews, and drive the full development lifecycle from prototyping to deployment for high-performance, scalable solutions. Mentor senior engineers across teams to establish best practices for design, testing, and operational excellence while advocating for customers. Partner with Product and Design to execute a roadmap that turns the team into an industry leader in video ad formats, leveraging AI-driven tools and GenAI to increase productivity.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Staff level seniority
- Minimum of 3+ years of Android expertise
- Deep expertise in Kotlin
- 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
- Proven track record of delivering user-facing features where UI polish and performance are critical
- Ability to navigate complex, data-intensive environments
- Build fault-tolerant client-side systems
- Experience leveraging GenAI tools to increase software engineering productivity
- Fluency working with product metrics
- Designing and analyzing experiments
- Exposure to tools like BigQuery, HEX, Firebase
- Openness to work across the stack
- Explore innovative approaches
- AI/ML integration
- Self-directed
- Innovative
- Biased towards action
- Live to build new things
- Thrive in ambiguity
- Collaborate with teams in a fully remote environment
- Discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- An experienced technical leader
- Strong track record of mentoring and uplifting team members technical skills and aptitude
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to prioritize tasks
- Keep projects on schedule for the team
- BS degree in Computer Science
- Similar technical field of study
- Equivalent practical experience
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working on Video Ads
- Experience working at a scaled peer company
- Experience with Jetpack Compose
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