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 this role, you will be a part of Play Ads, an impactful, fast-growing part of the Play Store organization dedicated to serving relevant and compelling ad experiences to users. You will have a direct impact on Google's revenue as an engineer in this role, taking on the exciting challenge of scaling their solutions to billions of worldwide users.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 back-end 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

• Establish and communicate team priorities that align with the broader organization's goals, ensuring strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.

• Define clear expectations for individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals, while meeting regularly to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.

• Drive the mid-term technical goal and roadmap, stewarding the stability and quality of one of the most widely used smartphone applications in the world, Google's Play Store.

• Support the engineering team as they design and build new features, formats, infrastructure for serving ads on the Play Store, running AB experiments, measure and analyze the performance of the features built.

• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in software development.

• 3 years of experience with full-stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.

• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.

• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications

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