Senior Android Developer

Computer Scientist I

The opportunity

Adobe is renowned for building world-class Photography solutions across desktop, mobile, and web. We move fast, care deeply about our craft, and are driven to develop the best tools for our users. Are you an Android developer who leads with judgment across code, product, and design? Are you dedicated to your craft and interested in building scalable engineering infrastructure to empower your team? If you ship high-quality experiences and want to deliver novel solutions to millions of enthusiastic users, then we'd love to meet you!

Join Adobe as a Computer Scientist 1 and be part of a world-class team working on Adobe's Digital Imaging (DI) apps, including Lightroom and Photoshop on Android. This outstanding role allows you to own complex features from concept to production while collaborating with different partners across Research, Product, Build, and Engineering!

What you'll do

• Implement scalable engineering guidelines with a focus on quality, testing, and scalability.

• Make confident scope and priority decisions balancing craft, velocity, and user impact.

• Test assumptions early, iterate on feedback, and continuously improve usability, performance, and creative outcomes.

• Use AI-assisted coding tools to speed up delivery, critically assessing the output.

• Mentor junior team members and share knowledge across team.

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science / IT with a minimum of 4+ years of Android development experience.

• Proven track record in developing Android applications.

• Skilled at debugging issues across multiple systems or domains

• Proven expertise in architecture and in composing robust, innovative mobile applications.

• Experience working with large codebases and comfort writing and debugging multi-threaded and asynchronous code in Android and native Java/C++ libraries.

• Strong understanding of mobile resource constraints and ability to implement efficient solutions considering CPU, memory, and battery life.

Even better if you have

• Experience with distributed agent runtimes and LLM proxy services.

• Comfort building and testing iteratively in production applications.

• Shipped creative, image editing, or video applications to the App Store.

• Ability to invent new features, influence architecture and solution composition, and contribute at the feature level.

• Encourages and motivates others to develop creativity and innovation.

• Actively seeks out and learns new technologies and techniques, and advocates for their adoption.

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. 

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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Experience Level

Senior Level