Senior Android Development Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a senior Android engineer who can own complex features end-to-end, raise the technical bar across the team, and thrive where shipping fast and shipping well aren't trade-offs. You'll work on a hybrid web/native application used by millions of creative professionals - building the experiences that only native Android can deliver, while collaborating with product, design, and cross-platform engineers.

What you'll do

- Use AI-assisted and agentic coding tools and workflows to accelerate delivery: direct sessions, critically review and validate generated output, and refactor into maintainable, production-quality code - without lowering the bar on correctness or craft.
- Design and implement major user-facing features in Kotlin and TypeScript on our hybrid web/native application stack.
- Help direct the evolution of our overall software architecture.
- Make the mobile app experience sing with features not achievable in the web stack alone.
- Lead code reviews, define quality standards, and drive process improvements across the full app lifecycle.
- Collaborate with product management and design to define the roadmap and assess new technologies.
- Partner with engineers across the organization to understand and address mobile app issues and norms.

What you need

- 6+ years of software development experience, including commercial Android applications.
- Expert proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java, with strong Android UI skills (Jetpack Compose, Media3 a plus).
- Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript in a hybrid web/native stack.
- Strong grasp of architectural patterns (MVC, MVVM, Clean Architecture) and object-oriented programming.
- Proven track record investigating complex, hard-to-reproduce issues in shipping software.
- Experience with multi-threading, mobile memory management, CI/CD, and automated testing frameworks.

Preferred qualifications

- iOS development experience - Swift, SwiftUI, or UIKit.
- Familiarity with Lit, MobX, Web Components, and modern browser-based tech stacks.
- Experience working on mobile web apps in resource-constrained environments.
- Published apps on the Google Play Store and/or App Store.
- Background in creative or media-focused applications.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

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Expected Pay Range:

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