Senior Android Engineer, UI Platform

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This is an Android role on Reddit’s UI Platform team. The mission of the UI Platform team is to deliver a cohesive, modern and accessible experience across all of Reddit’s platforms. 

This role will enable us to bring best in class UI/UX to Android’s 100M DAUs across the world. You will help establish the right standards in Android development to accelerate development and raise the quality bar across all teams.

As a senior engineer on the UI platform team, you will be responsible for driving development on Reddit’s cross platform design system and evolving our UI framework. You will have the company-wide scope, impact, and responsibility in shaping the future of Android development at Reddit.

What you’ll do

• Push Reddit’s accessibility goals forward. Develop and introduce solutions based on WCAG and Android best practices. 
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to drive development on Reddit’s cross platform design system (Reddit’s design system story).
• Evolve how all Android engineers at Reddit build UI, drive adoption of Jetpack Compose (Building Reddit’s design system for Android with Jetpack Compose).
• Help us build the technical foundation for rapid experimentation without compromising on quality.
• Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems in Android development.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent hands-on, post-grad, non-internship technical expertise
• 5+ years of hands-on, non-internship, full-time professional software development experience developing user-facing Android mobile native applications at scale, using Java or Kotlin 
• You are a strategic thinker who thrives on developing a long-term technical foundation and has a passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves people’s lives globally.
• A track record of leading large projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
• Experience with modern Android development frameworks such as Jetpack Compose and Kotlin …