Developer Relations Engineer, Android/System UI

2 Months ago • 3-4 Years • Mobile Development

Job Summary

Job Description

This Developer Relations Engineer role focuses on Android/System UI. Responsibilities include working with developers to boost System UI API adoption, providing engineering guidance for product development and improvement, becoming a SysUI API and tools expert, identifying opportunities for Google and developers, ensuring SysUI API alignment with Jetpack Compose best practices, and collaborating with Android System UI and Developer Experience teams. The role involves creating developer resources (code examples, blog posts), influencing engineering plans, proposing product changes, and understanding developer needs. The ideal candidate possesses strong Android app development skills (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose), experience debugging performance issues, and a passion for developer advocacy.

Must have:

3+ years Android app development experience
1+ year Kotlin experience
System UI API expertise
Jetpack Compose experience
Developer relations experience

Good to have:

Experience debugging Jetpack Compose performance issues
Experience rolling out new technologies
Open-source contribution experience

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4 skills required for this role

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kotlin

networking

problem-solving

user-interface

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
3 years of experience in Android app development.
1 year of experience in Kotlin programming language.

Preferred qualifications:

4 years of experience in building Android apps.
Experience debugging performance issues in Jetpack Compose.
Experience rolling out a new technology at their company to improve developer productivity.
Experience contributing to an open source project.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

In this role, you will work with developers, generate insights, create guidance, write example code, author blog posts, influence engineering plans, propose product changes, discover developer stories and inspire developers.

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

Work with developers to drive adoption of System UI APIs.
Provide engineering direction and assistance to design, build, launch, and improve developer products.
Become an expert in SysUI APIs and tools, and identify opportunities for Google and developers to create better products for users.
Work with the Jetpack Compose team to ensure that the SysUI APIs align with Jetpack Compose best practices.
Collaborate with Android System UI and Developer Experience product and engineering teams to deliver the relevant developer narrative to Android Developers.