Expert Android Design System Engineer (m/f/d)

We're looking for an expert Android Design System Engineer to lead the development of reusable mobile components and deliver consistent, accessible, high-quality user experiences across Android applications.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain mobile Design System components and interaction patterns in line with platform strategies, governance policies, and standards.
• Write and review clean, testable, scalable Kotlin code using best practices and established design patterns.
• Maintain code quality through automated testing, code reviews, and continuous integration pipelines.
• Provide technical assessments for mobile design component development, ensuring solutions are high quality, customer-centric, future-focused, and easy to use.
• Contribute actively to the architecture of mobile applications in line with platform strategies, governance policies, and standards.
• Collaborate with design and development teams to align goals, scope, and business outcomes.
• Create and maintain documentation for mobile components.
• Support the mobile development community with adoption, implementation, testing, and maintenance of the Design System.
• Work with project leaders, architects, designers, and front-end developers to understand their needs and resolve questions.
• Champion Design System adoption together with clients and usability engineers.
• Brainstorm improvements and propose innovative ways to increase community engagement.
• Evaluate new technologies, patterns, and frameworks for potential adoption.
• Contribute to design reviews, prototypes, and mobile user experience standards.

🤖 AI-powered Design System

• Create documentation for AI agents so Design System users can build applications with the library through AI-assisted coding.
• Create test applications using AI-assisted coding to verify library compatibility with AI tools.
• Document all components in Figma Code Connect.

🛠️ Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as an Android Developer.
• Expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Git.
• Experience with Material Design 3 for Jetpack Compose and Design Systems in general.
• Strong experience building reusable, testable, composable UI components.
• Proficiency in writing unit tests, screenshot tests, and Compose UI tests.
• Deep knowledge of accessibility best practices in Jetpack Compose.
• Knowledge of right-to-left (RTL) interfaces.

➕ Nice to have

• Strong interest in modern technology trends and best practices.
• Curiosity about technologies beyond Android, including iOS development and cross-platform solutions.
• Experience with inner-source products.
• Experience engaging with developer communities, managing communities, or contributing actively to open-source projects.
• Experience creating third-party libraries.
• Familiarity with Dokka and documentation deployment.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of Design Tokens and Figma Tokens, including their use in custom Design Systems.
• Experience working in a regulated environment.
• Knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript.

💰 Compensation

• The minimum salary for this position is €3,843 gross per month.
• A higher offer may be available based on experience and current market conditions.