Computer Scientist 2 (Android)

Our Company 
 

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.  

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! 
 

The Opportunity  

Adobe Document Cloud is revolutionizing the way the world works with documents. It’s a very exciting place to be. The Document Cloud (DC) combines a collection of online services integrated with Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Sign. Our subscription base is growing rapidly, and we are continually rolling out new features and services. We work in small, agile teams with considerable autonomy, and we value engineers with technical competence, flexibility, strong customer insight and an eagerness for learning and partnership. By helping our customers build, handle and share documents, we improve Adobe's ability to empower creative people, business professionals and marketing specialists to be successful. This is an opportunity to build a system that ultimately benefits millions of Adobe customers every day.  

We are looking for a dedicated and talented Computer Scientist to join our DC Acrobat Mobile Team to lead Android development. Our team is an energetic and collaborative Agile software development group focused on delivering scalable, high-quality enterprise solutions. As part of this dynamic environment, you will take pride in designing and building end-to-end solutions that delight our users and meet business goals.

What you'll Do  

As a Computer Scientist, you will be owning the vision for PDF workflows on Android. You'll define product features, craft system architecture, and implement standard methodologies to mold our strategy and ensure a quality product.  

The ideal candidate is clearly someone who can adapt to an agile environment, is passionate about new opportunities in mobile and has a proven track record of success in delivering new features and products. You should possess a strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, mobile technologies, and hands-on experience in building customer-facing mobile products. You should have demonstrated technical expertise to design and build reliable, scalable, and high-performance product. 

What you need to succeed  

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in computer science/IT with minimum 5+ years of Android development experience.  

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Java with a solid understanding of Android SDK, Android Studio, and related development tools. Can debug issues across multiple systems or domains 

•  Proven expertise in architecture and design for developing robust and innovative mobile applications. 

• Has experience with working on huge codebases and comfortable writing and debugging multi-threaded & asynchronous code in Android and the native Java/C++ libraries.  

• Understands the resource constraints of mobile devices and implements robust and efficient solutions with respect to CPU, memory and battery life.  

• Innovates new features, influences architecture & design of our solutions and make contributions at feature level. Also, encourages and influences others to grow their creativity and innovation  

• Seeks out and learns new technologies & techniques and advocates for their use in his work. Regularly shares knowledge with peers, both in and out of own team as well as mentors junior team members.  

Why Adobe?

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.