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Senior Software Engineer, Android Growth
Minimum qualifications:
- Experience with the Android platform and ecosystem.
- Candidates will typically have 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
- Experience as a technical leader, leading project teams, and setting technical direction.
- Experience with coding in data structures, algorithms and software design.
Preferred qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent pratical experience.
About The Job
- The Android Growth team focuses on entry-to-mid-tier Android smartphones globally to enable affordable devices and create delightful experiences that are locally relevant. Our mission is to accelerate the transition from feature phones to smartphones and bring the best of Google’s products to delight Android users. We also aim to accelerate business growth for Android Partners (e.g., OEMs, Telcos, Retailers) and content creators (e.g., app, games, books).
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help solve difficult and important technical challenges, such as improving the smartphone experience for entry-to-mid tier Android devices. In this role, you will create ideas for how we can serve relevant and useful information to users, and set goals for how to re-imagine the entire online experience. You will help build Android, Google Play products, and collaborate with teams such as Search, Assistant, YouTube, and Payments to create an all-encompassing experience. The role is part of our Africa Development Center .
- Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.
Responsibilities
- Build applications and experiences that will make it more customized for entry-to-mid-tier Android devices globally.
- Participate in the software feature life cycle from start to end and collaborate with other Engineers, Product Managers, and User Experience Designers and Researchers who will work with you to develop the user experience.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
- Review code written by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide on the optimal solution
Lead Software Engineer, Search
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Candidates will typically have 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
- Typically 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Candidates will typically have 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- Experience working with distributed systems at scale.
- Familiarity with Africa market or user expectations.
- Ability to work with new technology, develop and implement short and long-term creative solutions.
- Ability to quickly understand and extend/refactor code written by others.
- Excellent collaborating and people management skills to work within a cross-functional team.
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.
- As a Lead Software Engineer, you will help solve important technical issues, such as quickly and reliably delivering the best Search experience for local users in Africa. You will create and execute ideas that will serve relevant and useful information to users, and set goals for how to re-image the entire online Search experience. You will build on and contribute to cutting-edge technologies that run Google Search. You will collaborate with geographically dispersed teams within Search as well as partner product teams such as Android, Assistant, and YouTube to create an all-encompassing experience. You will use the technical knowledge to identify, build, monitor, maintain, and continuously improve features and infrastructure to enable and sustain Google Search success in Africa.
- In Google Search, we’re reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product Management, User Experience, Infrastructure, and other teams to identify opportunities, design, and build new features as well as improve existing features.
- Manage prototyping, live experimentation, iterating on search quality, leveraging and contributing to powerful technologies/infrastructure (e.g., NLP, Machine Learning), and maintenance of signals, models, and infrastructure.
- Collect and analyze the performance of features and platforms, including reliability and latency, customer/ecosystem usage, experiments, and Machine Learning training data.
- Review code written by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Own features from conception to launch.
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