Senior Android Engineer, Design System

Reddit, Inc. is a community of communities that fosters open conversations online. They are seeking a Senior Android Engineer for their Design System Team to enhance Reddit's cross-platform design system and UI architecture, focusing on building reusable components and improving performance and accessibility.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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