UX Engineer

• Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in front-end technologies.
• Design, implement, and maintain complex UI components and features for Google TV, leveraging Android front-end development expertise.
• Lead significant technical initiatives, contributing to the overall user experience of Google TV, television UI and front-end libraries.
• Act as a technical liaison, bridging communication and collaboration between engineering, design, and product management teams.
• Manage user interface system components and contribute to the development of new components to improve the Google TV experience.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in Android UI development, Android's UI framework, including layouts, resources, and UI components.
• 6 years of experience developing Android applications using Kotlin/Java.
• Experience in designing and implementing user interfaces (UIs). Experience in development or prototyping.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience in a technical, UX, or design environment.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (Backbone, Angular or Ember) and CSS pre-processing frameworks (Sass or Less).
• Experience with engaging visuals and optimized code.
• Experience with user interface design best practices and accessibility guidelines.
• Ability to build and maintain user interfaces using Jetpack Compose.

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 push technology forward. They’re comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products used by millions of people every day.

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.

As a UX Engineer, you'll work on the front end of our products in a challenging, fast-paced environment, helping to bridge UX best practices and production execution. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to enable efficient, high quality execution and communications and launch innovative features to a global audience.

In this role, you will focus on Android/Google TV-specific front-end development, requiring collaboration and technical leadership within the UX Engineering framework.

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.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in Android UI development, Android's UI framework, including layouts, resources, and UI components.
• 6 years of experience developing Android applications using Kotlin/Java.
• Experience in designing and implementing user interfaces (UIs). Experience in development or prototyping.