Google

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience delivering mobile applications using native iOS, Android, and/or Mobile Web technologies.
• Experience with large-scale mobile applications and complex architectures.
• Experience with Android mobile app development (e.g., Kotlin, Java).

About the Job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Own the Discover product on Android, including managing the client infrastructure that supports Discover's strategic initiatives. Drive the strategy for Discover's Android client and its underlying infrastructure.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers to develop client infrastructure, focusing on rendering, reliability, latency, and logging.
• Implement and maintain robust testing and quality assurance processes.Ensure features adhere to best practices and coding standards.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team. Provide team management, technical mentorship, and guidance to team members, fostering their growth and development.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams to define goals and roadmap. Partner with technical leads across the organization, prioritizing code cleanup and promoting testing and quality best practices.