Senior Software Engineer, Merchant Activity and Data Engineering

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in London is seeking software engineers to build next-generation technologies at scale across a range of products and services. You will work on projects critical to Google’s needs, with opportunities to switch teams as the business grows and evolves.

The role requires versatility, leadership, and a drive to tackle new challenges across the full stack. As part of the Shopping data platform, you will help manage billions of product offers and support data sourcing, analysis, and trusted

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design/architecture.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code and provide feedback to ensure best practices (style, quality, testing, efficiency).
• Contribute to documentation and educational content updated with product changes.
• Triage issues and debug/resolve by analyzing hardware, network, or service impact.

Skills

Software development experience

Software testing/launch experience

Software design/architecture

Go

C++

SQL

Dreampipe

Flume

Algorithms exposure

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience designing high-throughput data processing systems and data analytics pipelines using SQL, Go, and C++.
• Experience managing data workflows through Dreampipe and Flume.

About the job

Google’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We’re looking for engineers 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 engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers 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.

As the industry undergoes a disruptive shift driven by Agentic surfaces and new AI technologies, Google Shopping stands at a pivotal moment. As a part of the Shopping data platform, you will manage billions of product offers from millions of merchants as these offers are served across various Google surfaces, including Ads, Discovery, Search, YouTube, Gmail, Shopping tab, and Maps and represent a major revenue stream for the company.

In this role, your team is responsible for the centralized platform used to define, implement, and distribute the organization’s primary data products for all Shopping use cases as Google teams and external merchants navigate the global AI revolution, providing fast and precise data sourcing essential for strategy development and accurate headroom analysis.People shop on Google more than a billion times a day - and the Commerce team is responsible for building the experiences that serve these users. The mission for Google Commerce is to be an essential part of the shopping journey for consumers - from inspiration to to a simple and secure checkout experience - and the best place for retailers/merchants to connect with consumers. We support and partner with the commerce ecosystem, from large retailers to small local merchants, to give them the tools, technology and scale to thrive in today’s digital world.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

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 .