UX Engineer, Android Developer

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
• Experience in application development in one or more platforms/areas (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, XR).
• Experience with Jetpack Compose, Android UI development, Kotlin, and prototyping tools and techniques.
• Experience with mobile UI/UX principles and best practices.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.
• 5 years of experience in a UX Engineering, Mobile UI Development, or similar role.
• Experience working directly from design tools like Figma.
• Familiarity with integrating APIs or mock data into prototypes.
• Knowledge of animation principles and their implementation in Jetpack Compose.
  
  

About The Job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s UX Engineers are versatile and passionate about taking on new problems to drive progress and vision for design teams. They’re comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products and prototypes that bring new ideas to life.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

The Android Developer UX team is dedicated to bringing intuitive tools and libraries to life, enabling developers to build exceptional apps for a global audience. Our work focuses on the tools and frameworks developers use every day, including Jetpack Compose, the Android Platform APIs, and UI within Android Studio. We strive to build and validate new, functional, and easy-to-use interaction conventions that are on the frontier of developer experiences.

Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities

• Build interactive, pixel-perfect prototypes and proof-of-concepts using Jetpack Compose to explore, validate, and communicate UX design intent for Android developer tools and libraries.
• Collaborate closely with UX Designers to understand their vision and accurately translate design specifications (e.g. from Figma) into functional, high-quality Jetpack Compose code.
• Investigate and implement cutting-edge UI patterns and interactions using Jetpack Compose, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in Android developer experiences.
• Partner effectively with UX Designers, UX Researchers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to ensure prototypes align with user needs, design goals, and technical constraints.
• Provide technical input during design phases, advocate for UI/UX best practices in Compose, and potentially contribute to internal UI component libraries or design system elements.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .