Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, Google Photos Web

Google; Sydney; On-site; AUD 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Australia in Sydney seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Photos Web team and guide multiple teams, shaping technical strategy for web platforms and AI-powered features. You will mentor engineers, influence product direction, and ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable web services.

As Tech Lead Manager, you will oversee cross-functional collaboration with Product and UX, drive career development, and balance technical excellence with operational impact across international

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 3 years in a technical leadership role overseeing projects and 2 years in people management.
• Experience building full-stack solutions, platforms or infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Define and influence technical direction and long-term strategy with other Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, prioritizing engineering excellence investments.
• Provide career management and coaching to help your team grow.
• Partner with Product and UX to define goals and strategy for Google Photos on web.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

Full-stack development

Software development

Languages: Python, C, C++, Java, JavaS

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
• Experience building full-stack solutions, platforms or infrastructure.

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).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
• Experience building full-stack solutions, platforms or infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience managing an engineering team.
• 2 years of web development experience.

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.

As the Tech Lead Manager of the Photos Web team, you will lead the Sydney-based team holistically responsible for Google Photos on mobile web and desktop. You will guide the team to ship features which capitalize on the unique advantages of the Web form factor, showcase Artificial Intelligence (AI) magic and bring key mobile features to the web, while maintaining service health and stability and building an effective 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

• Define and influence technical direction and long-term strategy in conjunction with other Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, helping the team make balanced trade-offs, and prioritize engineering excellence investments in a systemic way.
• Provide career management and coaching to help your team grow in directions that are exciting to them.
• Partner closely with cross-functional peers such as Product and User Experience (UX) to collaboratively define the goal and strategy for Google Photos on web.