Technical Lead Manager, Android Frameworks

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager/Tech Lead Manager to guide multiple engineering teams across Android and related platforms. You will lead architectural decisions, ensure high-quality software, and drive large-scale project delivery with a focus on performance and reliability.

You will supervise engineers, coordinate cross-team efforts, and contribute to product strategy while managing budgets and timelines on global initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of team leadership or management experience.
• 3 years of experience in Android, IOS, Embedded, Firmware.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of software engineers as a Tech Lead Manager (TLM).
• Review and contribute to technical design documents, ensuring code quality, testability, and adherence to best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to engineers.
• Diagnose, debug, and resolve technical issues, including performance and power optimization.
• Drive improvements to the team’s development processes and tools.

Skills

Team leadership

Software architecture

Android

Embedded systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

8 years of experience in software development

5 years of experience testing and launching software products

3 years of experience with software design and architecture

3 years of team leadership or management experience

3 years of experience in Android, IOS, Embedded, Firmware

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of team leadership or management experience.
• 3 years of experience working in one of the following domains: Android, IOS, Embedded, Firmware.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in an organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience working with program languages such as Java and Kotlin.

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 Technical Lead Manager, you will work with display and power management technologies for Android OS development across a range of devices. You will ensure the stability and extensibility of critical display and power frameworks for the entire Android ecosystem and partner with various teams including Pixel, Android partners, and internal Google teams to deliver essential support for new features, enable upcoming innovations, and identify and address gaps in Android's display and power capabilities.

Android is Google’s 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

• Manage a team of software engineers as a Tech Lead Manager (TLM).
• Review and contribute to technical design documents, ensuring code quality, testability, and adherence to best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to engineers.
• Diagnose, debug, and resolve technical issues, including performance and power optimization.
• Drive improvements to the team’s development processes and tools.

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 .