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Our Company Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! I ntroduction Do you have a passion for building high-quality, well-designed mobile user interfaces? Do you excel in working with multi-functional teams of engineers and designers, delving into complex issues in user interface development while striving for design excellence and consistency? Adobe Design is looking for a Senior Design Engineer to join our Spectrum Design System team, with a focus on Android UI component engineering. On the Spectrum team, we bridge design and technology, providing Adobe with tools, components, infrastructure, and services that enable design precision and consistent, fully accessible user experiences across a range of products. The opportunity In this role, you will build Spectrum-based Android components and help mobile product teams at Adobe use them effectively. You will participate in key planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery. You will play a key role in ensuring Spectrum is available for our customers in a timely, stable, and scalable way. And, just as importantly, you will contribute to building a collaborative, friendly and vibrant engineering culture within Adobe Design. What You’ll Do Collaborate with the Spectrum design team to ensure our design system’s aesthetic is built into our Android componen ts , all while maintaining an idiomatic API Partner with product teams to define, build, support, and validate implementations of Spectrum in Adobe’s Android products Understand and derive data from designs, map data to clear abstractions, and integrate that design data into our components Write clarifying documentation to communicate our engineering approach, support contributors, perform code reviews, and help improve the predictability and stability of our libraries Help communicate product engineering concerns back to design, and help drive process improvements to address concerns Assist in the discovery and delivery of fixes needed for our components What You Need To Succeed Must-Haves Strong understanding of how to build performant and complex UI components in the Android ecosystem, ideally having direct experience with the Android Studio, Kotlin, and Java (3+ years) Passion and desire for building user interface components with meticulous attention to design details Experience building and supporting frameworks or SDKs used by other developers Experience with git and GitHub Practice with open development and providing detailed feedback to other team members Understanding of UI accessibility practices, standards, and testing methods Practice working closely with designers, including experience converting detailed designs into code A pragmatic, collaborative and open-minded outlook, and a high degree of comfort working in a fast-paced environment Nice-to-Haves Familiarity with the concepts behind design systems and how they are applied in product development Hands-on usage of build, test, and release methods; such as linting, CI/CD tooling, software testing and validation techniques, and modern dev-ops practices Experience working with partners to inform product roadmap planning Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more about our vision here. Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 536-3015. Show more Show less
