Software Engineering, Android Embedded Software

Google; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a software engineer for their Android gaming team based in Bengaluru. The role focuses on delivering a premium gaming experience across Android and native platforms, with cross-system integration and performance testing across the OS.

You will work on Google Play gaming features and collaborate with product, program management, and UX to drive impact. The team aims to provide a high-quality gaming experience across devices, ensuring performance, security, and scalable solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with android systems and applications, with managing issues and research across Android.
• Experience with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-level programming.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features to ensure a performant, reliable multi-platform gameplay experience to delight the users.
• Write and review code, design docs, and test plans to ensure quality work.
• Partner with product management, program management, and User Experience (UX) to solve problems and deliver business impact.
• Solve problems that balance technical considerations (e.g., maintainability, scalability, reliability, availability, efficiency, security) with business/product requirements.
• Work on software development, deployment and production practices.

Skills

Android development experience

GPU programming

5 years Android experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with android systems and applications, with managing issues and research across Android.
• Experience with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-level programming.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with android systems and applications, with managing issues and research across Android.
• Experience with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-level programming.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience with android systems and applications, with managing issues and research across Android.
• Experience with mobile and desktop gaming.
• Ability to build performant, and secure systems.
• Excellent technical communication and collaboration skills.

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.

Our team is responsible for delivering a quality gaming experience allowing the users to play their Android and native games across form factors.

In this role, you will manage cross-system integration and performance tests across the operating system (e.g., input, graphics, audio, etc.). You will help the small team move at a pace to hit deadlines.

Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features to ensure a performant, reliable multi-platform gameplay experience to delight the users.
• Write and review code, design docs, and test plans to ensure quality work.
• Partner with product management, program management, and User Experience (UX) to solve problems and deliver business impact.
• Solve problems that balance technical considerations (e.g., maintainability, scalability, reliability, availability, efficiency, security) with business/product requirements.
• Work on software development, deployment and production practices.

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We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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