Expert Android Design System Engineer; m​/f​/d

Overview

Let’s build a healthier future, together. Roche combines unique strengths to redefine healthcare through sustainable action and innovation. The Vienna office (mySugr GmbH, acquired by Roche in 2017) is a global site. You will be located in Vienna, regardless of whether you work on mySugr®, Accu-Chek®, navify® or any other Roche product or solution. Read more about the history of mySugr & Roche here.

Roche utilizes a unified Design System to streamline the user interfaces of its digital products and deliver a consistent, harmonized user experience for our customers. The One Design System encompasses all web and mobile applications developed at Roche Diagnostics.

Our Engineering Team is looking for an Android Expert able to lead the development of mobile components, ensuring correct design and implementation of cutting-edge user interfaces for mobile applications. You are able to translate UX and client requirements into technical solutions and vice versa, and you will lead the development of such components.

You will be located either in Vienna or in Sant Cugat (near Barcelona).

Hands-On Engineering & Tech Execution:

• Architect, develop, maintain the Design System components & interaction patterns for mobile, consistent with platform strategies, governance policy, and standards.
• Write and review clean, testable, scalable code aligned with best practices and design patterns.
• Maintain code quality through automated testing, code review, and continuous integration pipelines.
• Provide technical assessment of development of the design components in mobile, ensuring the approach is quality-focused, customer-centric, future-thinking and easy to use.
• Participate actively in the creation of the architecture for Mobile Applications, consistent with platform strategies, governance policy, and standards.

Stakeholder &

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Collaborate with Design & Development teams to align on goals, scope and business outcomes.
• Ensure documentation on Mobile Components and support the mobile development community in adoption, implementation, testing and maintenance.
• Work with Roche clients (project leaders, architects, designers, front-end developers) to establish collaboration, understand their needs and address questions.
• Champion the adoption of the Design System together with the client and the Usability Engineers across Roche.

Creative / Strategic activities:

• Brainstorm improvements and propose innovative solutions to improve community engagement.
• Evaluate new technologies, patterns, and frameworks for potential adoption.
• Contribute to design review, prototypes, and mobile user experience standards.

AI powered design system:

• Create documentation for AI agents to ensure users can work with the library.
• Create test applications using vibe coding to ensure compatibility of the library with AI.
• Document all the components in Fiigma code connect.

Essential skills for your mission:

• Android Developer for at least 5 years
• Expert in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Git
• Experience with Material Design 3 for Jetpack Compose and Design Systems in general
• Strong experience to build reusable, testable, composable UI components
• Proficiency to write unit tests, screenshot tests, Compose UI tests
• Deep knowledge of implementing accessibility best practices (A11y) in Jetpack Compose
• RTL Knowledge

Bonus skills:

• Vivid interest in modern technology trends and best practices
• Curiosity in domains outside of Android: iOS development, cross-platform solutions knowledge
• Innersourced products experience
• Engagement in dev communities, community management, active contribution to open source solutions
• Experience creating 3rd party libraries
• Familiar with Dokka and documentation deployment
• Familiar with Github Actions
• Knowledge about Design/Figma Tokens and how they are used in a custom Design System
• Experience working in a regulated environment
• Java script / Typescript knowledge

In Austria, we have a legal obligation to disclose the minimum salary according to our collective agreement, which is gross EUR 3,843 per month for this position. We offer competitive compensation packages that reflect market trends and your experience.

Who we are and what we care about?

We are committed to providing a healthy, equal and inclusive working environment. We value family-friendly career paths, sustainability, a healthy lifestyle and a flexible modern workplace. Our culture emphasizes learning, sharing, and open feedback, with opportunities to grow professionally and personally.

As a healthcare pioneer committed to transforming lives, we push boundaries to redefine what is possible. We focus on early, accurate diagnosis, innovation, and lasting impact on society by improving the standard of care with strong data and clinical insights.

Interested? Great. We’d like to hear from you. Please apply with your CV in English and anything else that might impress us.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.