Software Engineer, iOS, Google Photos, Early Careers at Google

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 Photos Onboarding iOS Growth team is focussed on the growth of new users into the Google Photos iOS app. The team is running many experiments to improve the user's first moments with Photos and promote the core growth metrics. The team owns Onboarding on iOS and Android, working with cross-functional peers as well as global engineering teams.

In this role, you will help us deliver new and improved features as well as identify, design and implement architectural improvements to existing ones.Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally to design, build and deploy exciting new product features

• Work with other engineers to improve the software components and architecture.

• Identify, triage, debug, track and resolve issues in existing code.

• Help to ensure user's trust in Google Photos.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).

• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Swift, SwiftUI or Objective-C.

• Experience in building iOS software products.