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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Play Ads is a fast-growing part of the Play Store organization aiming to serve relevant, engaging ad experiences. This is an opportunity for engineers seeking an impactful role tied directly to Google's business growth, excited by the challenge of scaling solutions to billions of worldwide users. Our backend is Java, and the client is Android (Java/Kotlin).

Play Ads engineers work with Product Managers and UX on product definition and road maps. You will have full authority to drive the design, development, experimentation, and launch of the features you own, regularly collaborating with partner teams across Ads and Play.

Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new features, formats, infrastructure for serving ads on the Play Store.

• Collaborate with cross-functional, cross-product area stakeholders to ideate and create the solutions for our users, developers, advertisers.

• Run AB experiments, measure and analyze the performance of the features you build.

• Help steward the stability and quality of one of the most used smartphone applications in the world—Google's Play Store.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in Java or Kotlin.

• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with large scale application design and architecture.

• 3 years of experience with Android application development.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in Android mobile application development, server-side applications for mobile clients.

• Experience delivering Android applications.

• Experience with ad-serving backend services.

• Experience with AB experimentation and tools.

• Experience with dependency injection techniques.