Engineering Manager, Google Photos Growth

Google; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking an Engineering Manager for Google Photos Growth in Australia. You will guide cross-functional teams across Android and iOS, shaping product strategy and growth initiatives while mentoring engineers to reach their potential and ensuring high-quality delivery.

Responsibilities include partnering with Product and UX to set goals, defining long-term technical direction, coaching engineers across multiple platforms, and allocating resources to drive scalable, user-centric features

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with cross-functional peers such as Product and UX to collaboratively define the goal and strategy for growing and activating new users on Google Photos.
• Define and influence technical direction and long-term strategy in conjunction with peer leads, helping the team make balanced tradeoffs, and prioritize engineering excellence investments in a systemic way.
• Manage an engineering team across Android and iOS including formal career management and coaching to help the team grow in directions that are exciting to them.

Skills

Software development experience

People management experience

Mobile app development

Full stack development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Programming languages (Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript)

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with mobile app development (iOS or Android).
• Experience building full stack solutions, platforms or infrastructure.

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.

The Google Photos Growth team owns driving growth and activating new users for Google Photos - the team is running many experiments to improve users' first moments with Photos and fuel our core growth metrics.

As part of a cross platform Android and iOS team, you would lead the team in shipping critical features for Growth, while working closely with cross-functional peers as well as global engineering teams. We are looking for a passionate Engineering Manager to help us build a new team in Google Photos Growth and shape the future of the team.

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

• Partner closely with cross-functional peers such as Product and UX to collaboratively define the goal and strategy for growing and activating new users on Google Photos.
• Define and influence technical direction and long-term strategy in conjunction with peer leads, helping the team make balanced tradeoffs, and prioritize engineering excellence investments in a systemic way.
• Manage an engineering team across Android and iOS including formal career management and coaching to help the team grow in directions that are exciting to them.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.