Android Software Engineer, Ad Formats

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

San Francisco, CA

On-site

Posted April 9, 2026

Job Description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Brand Ad Formats team drives the development of ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact. They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users. By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes. Their work includes evolving existing formats and launching entirely new ones to keep Reddit’s ad offerings fresh and competitive.The team is working on multiple new formats including a fully customizable interactive ad format, and an ad format that uses AI to incorporate User-Generated Content.

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

Proficiency in Android engineering and languages such as Kotlin or Java, with at least 3 years of experience in software development.
Strong software engineering fundamentals.
A willingness to tackle the challenges of creating data-intensive, highly responsive, and fault-tolerant apps.
An openness to explore innovative approaches to software development.

Bonus Points

Experience working on ad tech.
Able to work full stack.

Technologies used on the team include:

Languages: Kotlin, Java, Go, Python
Frameworks: Thrift, gRPC
Datastores: Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQuery
Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

Benefits:

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