Software Developer, Full Stack, reCAPTCHA Product Experience

Google; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 150,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Montreal is seeking a Software Developer, Full Stack, focused on recaptcha product experience. You will design and implement end-to-end features across front-end and back-end, contributing to high-velocity security dashboards and APIs.

The role involves building data pipelines and core services in C++ and Kotlin, collaborating with SRE, and delivering scalable, testable code for consumer-facing security capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.
• 2 years of experience with software development using C++ and Kotlin.
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience with full-stack development.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high-fidelity user journeys, interactive UX, and configuration flows in the Cloud Console (Fraud Defense and Trust API).
• Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines to process, warehouse, and serve high-performance security metrics to customer observability dashboards.
• Extend and maintain core serving services (using C++ and Kotlin) ensuring system reliability and correctness.
• Partner with SRE in weekly product rollout cycles, establish monitoring metrics, and participate in on-call rotation to triage escalations.
• Write clean, maintainable, and highly testable code; scale testing suites; lead team-wide bughunting; refactor serving layers for billing and allowlist features.

Skills

Full stack development

Java

Python

Golang

C++

JavaScript

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Napa

Sawmill

Cloud APIs

Job description

Software Developer, Full Stack, reCAPTCHA Product Experience

Google

Montreal, QC, Canada

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.
• 2 years of experience with software development using C++ and Kotlin.
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience with full-stack development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Angular, TypeScript, Kotlin, and UI design.
• Experience managing reliable infrastructure at scale.
• Experience with full-stack analysis and productionization.
• Experience with Cloud APIs, server platform, Flume, or One Platform.
• Experience transforming cross-functional requirements into development designs.

About the job

Google Cloud's software developers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for software developers 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 developer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. We need our software developers 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.

In this role, you will own and deliver critical features for our user-facing consoles, rich security insight dashboards, high-throughput analytics pipelines, public APIs, and dynamic Policy Engine. You will work across both front-end and backend architectures, partnering with Detection teams and cross-functional stakeholders to turn advanced bot and agentic threat detection and anti-abuse systems into highly intuitive, useful products used by more than 14M domains. By managing the end-to-end lifecycle of consumer-facing security features, you will have a direct impact on protecting the digital ecosystem for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and our global enterprise customers and will be at forefront of enabling a safe agentic web for all.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Canada: $150000 - $153000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high-fidelity user journeys, interactive UX, and configuration flows in the Cloud Console (Fraud Defense and Trust API).
• Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines (e.g., via Napa and Sawmill log architectures) to process, warehouse, and serve high-performance security metrics to customer observability dashboards.
• Extend and maintain core serving services (using C++ and Kotlin) ensuring system reliability and correctness.
• Partner with SRE in our weekly product rollout cycles, establish monitoring metrics, and actively participate in the joint development on-call rotation to triage customer escalations and interrupts.
• Write clean, maintainable, and highly testable code; scale our hermetic testing suites; lead team-wide bughunts; and refactor serving layers to support evolving billing and allowlist features.

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