Staff Frontend/Cloud Engineer — Lead, Large-Scale Web Apps

Google; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 216,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s Cloud division seeks a Staff Software Developer for the Client Stack, Front End and Web Development. The role is based in North America with in-person interviews and potential work locations including Waterloo, Canada and New York, USA.

You will lead the Chat Client Side Encryption initiative and guide a team of developers across the full stack. You will drive technical strategy, ensure robust design, and deliver secure solutions while collaborating with model builders and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 5 years testing and launching software products; 3 years design/architecture.
• 5 years of full stack development across back-end (Java) and front-end (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS).
• 1 year of mobile stack experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of developers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.

Skills

Front-end development

Full stack development

Java backend

Testing and launching software

Mobile stack

Architecture design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's or PhD in related field

Job description

Google’s Cloud division seeks a Staff Software Developer for the Client Stack, Front End and Web Development. The role is based in North America with in-person interviews and potential work locations including Waterloo, Canada and New York, USA.

You will lead the Chat Client Side Encryption initiative and guide a team of developers across the full stack. You will drive technical strategy, ensure robust design, and deliver secure solutions while collaborating with model builders and