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 Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Create external developer facing APIs and underlying infrastructure.

• Identify, deliver, and land critical user journeys.

• Measure and monitor the impact of various features across Business Communication ecosystem.

• Create better user experience by fixing critical bugs/issues raised by external developers (partners).

• Work with Product Manager (PM), User Experience (UX), Developer Relations (Dev Rel), Business Development (BD), Support and Engineering leads to deliver critical product/system metrics to help understand various nuances of the product.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.

• 2 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.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in an impactful development role, leading complex, cross-functional software projects from inception to delivery.

• Experience in building and scaling large-scale services.

• Familiarity with APIs and SDKs.

• Excellent verbal and written communication, people management, and investigative skills, with a track record of driving technical innovation and complex problem-solving.