Staff Software Engineer, Android Design System

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

As an Android engineer on the Design System Team, you will help evolve Reddit’s cross-platform design system and UI architecture that powers experiences across the company. You will build reusable components, improve platform capabilities, and help establish frontend patterns that enable product teams to ship high-quality experiences efficiently. This role has broad scope and impact, helping shape the future of frontend development at Reddit.

What You’ll Do:

• Evolve Reddit’s cross-platform design system by expanding its capabilities and developing higher-level reusable components that accelerate product development while maintaining consistency and quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams, designers, and engineers to ensure the design system and UI infrastructure effectively support real product needs.
• Improve performance at scale, contributing to Android architecture, rendering patterns, and performance-focused development practices that make performance a built-in feature of the platform.
• Advance accessibility across the platform, building accessible components, patterns, tooling, and documentation that help teams adopt accessibility best practices by default.
• Strengthen developer experience, contributing to shared tooling, documentation, and platform improvements that help engineers build reliable, consistent UI across Reddit’s products.

You Have:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of leading cross-functional projects and delivering solutions with broad product impact.
• Experience building and maintaining shared UI infrastructure, such as design systems, component libraries, or frontend infrastructure used across multiple teams.
• Strong experience with modern Android development using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with expertise in UI architecture, scalable component design, and performance optimization using tools such as Instruments.
• Familiarity with accessibility best practices and an interest in building components, tooling, or documentation that help teams ship accessible experiences by default.
• You embody Reddit’s core value of “Evolve” — you embrace ambiguity, seek feedback, and continuously improve your craft and the platform you help build.

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