Job Description

Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence.

Reddit has a strong following of users who come to reddit to find content and have deep discussions they are interested in. Reddit offers unique and high engagement conversations, we’re the home of conversation on the internet. Our communities achieve fun, exciting, quirky things when they band together. Over the last few years we have been growing multiple ads types and now are a sizable ads player. The ad formats team has multiple ad formats that it supports and new ones it innovates on continuously. This is where this team comes in to build new products from 0 to V1 and V2, establish product market fit and help scale it. This includes both products that are industry unique and products that are newer to Reddit but have established demand in the ads industry. 

This team’s focus areas include:

• Building new formats with functionality that delights our advertisers

• Enable formats on various surfaces/placements

• Establish product market fit

• Iterate and pivot based on advertiser needs and product feedback

• Continually improving the technical foundations used for Ad Formats

The New Ad Formats team is seeking a skilled Android engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the New Ad Formats team.

Responsibilities:

• Build Ad experiences and create patterns for Reddit’s Android app that enhance our ads’ performance and functionality.

• Collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams to  innovate and implement sophisticated solutions for complex challenges.

• Engage in the full development cycle:  design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy .

Required Qualifications:

• Expertise in Android engineering with at least 4 years of experience

• Proficient in the Kotlin programming language

• Strong software engineering fundamentals

• A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps within the constraints of a smartphone environment

• An openness to explore innovative approaches to software development

• Skilled at performing insightful code reviews, and receiving feedback themself

Bonus points:

• Experience working on ad tech

• Able to work full stack

Technologies used on the team include:

• Languages:  Kotlin , Go, Python

• Frameworks:  Jetpack Compose, Dagger/Anvil , Thrift, gRPC

• Datastores:  Room , Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQuery

• Tools:   Firebase Crashlytics, Develocity, Bitrise, Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k Match

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off

• Generous paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

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