Senior UX Engineer, Wear OS

Google

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 13 days ago
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Bucharest, Romania; London, UK.Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
  • Experience in creating solutions for android, desktop and mobile web experiences.
  • Experience in Android UI prototyping or development.
Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.
  • Experience with the Jetpack support libraries, including Jetpack Compose.
  • Experience with motion frameworks, such as Lottie.
  • Experience with material design standards.
  • Experience in programming with Java or Kotlin.
  • Experience developing native, clean, and compatible android applications.
About the jobAt 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.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
  • Manage multiple project requests simultaneously while meeting deadlines.
  • Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers.
  • Co-ordinate with engineers on final implementation to ensure accessibility standards are met.
  • Serve as a mentor for early career UX engineers and peers.
  • Comply with all company health and safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also and If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our .

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