Senior Engineering Manager, Android Platform
Job Summary
The Engineering Manager for Reddit’s Android Platform Team is responsible for leading a team of Android developers, setting goals for performance and stability, and ensuring high-quality code delivery across mobile applications. The role involves architectural decision-making, improving developer efficiency, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to innovate and enhance internal frameworks. Candidates should have extensive experience in mobile or platform development, strong leadership skills, and expertise in Android native technologies and programming languages such as Kotlin and Java. The position emphasizes building a high-caliber team, fostering a metrics-driven culture, and supporting Reddit’s growth objectives.
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The Client Platform Organization defines how we build and more importantly, how we build with excellence. It’s not enough for Reddit just to work, it needs to work every time for every user on every device in every location. The Client Platform Organization invests in our Software Architecture, Developer Experience, and Client Health in support of a better Reddit experience.
The Android Platform team sets the technical direction for Android at Reddit. Our customers are primarily other engineers. It’s our job to help improve developer efficiency by providing libraries/APIs/frameworks, monitoring performance, building shared components, improving build tools, etc. In the codebase, we own the core components of the app such as the networking and caching stack. We set the direction in which the codebase builds by defining which design patterns and technologies to employ at Reddit.
As the Engineering Manager on Reddit’s Android Platform Team, you’ll use your engineering, collaboration, and leadership skills to deliver a performant experience to millions of Redditors, and lead the architectural decision-making of Reddit’s Android engineering organization. You'll collaborate cross-functionally to innovate and replace our internal frameworks and tooling to help Reddit’s feature teams write performant code without a second thought. This is a critical role for enabling Reddit's future growth plans.
What You’ll Do:
- Build, hire and lead a high-caliber team of Android Mobile developers.
- Be responsible for setting and maintaining latency, stability, and developer productivity goals for the Mobile Applications.
- Coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
- Set and support a metrics-driven culture, with efficient processes and strong transparency.
- Work with feature teams across the company to follow the best practices and to deliver high quality code for Reddit’s Mobile applications.
Who You Might Be:
- Preferred: 4-8 years experience of leading a team of software engineers, as a people manager.
- 8+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in Mobile development, or Platform development roles.
- Strong experience in setting the goals, execution, and accountability.
- Experience in Android native mobile platform.
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages and mobile frameworks; Kotlin, Java, Python, Go etc.
- Strong organizational skills, Influential skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
- Excellent communication, planning & collaboration skills
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
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
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