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

Description

The company is redesigning healthcare through sustainable work and new ideas, and it is building a single design system used by all web and mobile applications in its diagnostics division.

The role sits in the Android engineering team and leads development of mobile components that give Android apps a consistent, accurate user interface. You turn UX and client needs into technical solutions and back again.

The Vienna office is one of the company's global sites and is located in the city centre. The team works on the mySugr, Accu-Chek, navify and other diagnostics products, and mySugr has been part of the company since 2017.

Based in either Vienna or Sant Cugat near Barcelona.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain mobile design system components and interaction patterns that follow platform strategy, governance rules and standards.
• Write and review clean, testable, scalable code using good practices and design patterns.
• Keep code quality high through automated tests, code review and continuous integration pipelines.
• Assess the technical quality of mobile design components, checking that they are customer focused, forward looking and easy to use.
• Help shape the architecture of mobile applications in line with platform strategy, governance and standards.
• Work with design and development teams to agree goals, scope and expected outcomes.
• Write documentation for mobile components and help the mobile developer community adopt, implement, test and maintain them.
• Work with client teams (project leads, architects, designers, front-end developers) to understand their needs and answer their questions.
• Promote adoption of the design system with clients and with the Usability Engineers across the company.
• Suggest new ideas to grow community engagement, and evaluate new technologies, patterns and frameworks.
• Contribute to design reviews, prototypes and mobile user experience standards.
• Write documentation that lets AI agents help design system users build with the library through vibe coding.
• Build test applications with vibe coding to check that the library works well with AI tools.
• Document all components in Figma Code Connect.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as an Android developer.
• Expert knowledge of Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and Git.
• Experience with Material Design 3 for Jetpack Compose and with design systems in general.
• Strong record of building reusable, testable, composable UI components.
• Skilled at writing unit tests, screenshot tests and Compose UI tests.
• Deep knowledge of accessibility (A11y) best practices in Jetpack Compose.
• Knowledge of right-to-left (RTL) layouts.
• Nice to have: a lively interest in current technology trends and good practices.
• Nice to have: curiosity about areas beyond Android, such as iOS and cross-platform solutions.
• Nice to have: experience with inner source products.
• Nice to have: involvement in developer communities, community management or open source contributions.
• Nice to have: experience creating third-party libraries.
• Nice to have: familiarity with Dokka and documentation deployment.
• Nice to have: familiarity with GitHub Actions.
• Nice to have: knowledge of design and Figma tokens and how they are used in a custom design system.
• Nice to have: experience working in a regulated environment.
• Nice to have: JavaScript or TypeScript knowledge.

Conditions

In Austria the law requires us to state the minimum salary under our collective agreement, which is a gross EUR 3,843 per month for this role. The actual offer is usually higher and reflects your experience.

The company is committed to a healthy, equal and inclusive workplace that offers family-friendly career paths, sustainability, healthy living and flexible working.

Equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• Competitive pay packages that take current market trends into account.
• Opportunities to learn and grow professionally and personally at every level.
• A culture of learning, knowledge sharing and candid, open feedback.