About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The team designs, develops, deploys, and supports Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), tools, and application frameworks used by Google's Android application developers.

In this role, you will be developing apps for Android users. You will provide a dependency injection system, reduce app crash rates, improve app performance, strengthen security and privacy guarantees, and make it easier for app developers to release new features.The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features and frameworks for app developers to use in building high quality Android apps in the Dagger dependency injection framework and the First-Party (1P) Android app framework.

• Design and implement enhancements to our frameworks to make the most of modern Android development tools, including Kotlin, Coroutines, and Jetpack Compose.

• Implement analysis and other tools to improve the quality of Google's Android apps and the lives of its app developers.

• Work with engineers on app development teams, both big and small, to integrate our products and recommended practices to make Google's apps better.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in Java or Kotlin, and with data structures/algorithms.

• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.

• 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• Experience in designing and implementing dependency injection.

• Experience with Android application development.

• Experience with concurrency and multi-threaded apps.

• Ability to build quality developer tools and infrastructure components.

• Ability to be creative with excellent problem solving skills.