Software Engineering Manager, Google Messages, Data Analytics

Google; Kraków; On-site; PLN 480,000 - 492,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Kraków is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams, providing technical leadership, guiding roadmaps, and helping developers optimize their code. You’ll oversee design reviews, mentoring, and delivery of large-scale projects.

You will coordinate across sites, manage budgets, and drive AI/ML initiatives within distributed systems while ensuring high quality, reliability, and security. English fluency and collaboration across functions are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years in people management or team leadership.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop the mid-term technical goal and roadmap within the scope of your team(s).
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the broader area and write code to solve problems.
• Review code developed by other engineers and ensure best practices.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

People management

AI/LLM integration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in software development.
  
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces into workflows.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
  
• Experience in data engineering, data science, data platform engineering, or analytics.

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.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Poland: zł480000 - zł492000 (PLN) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
  
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
  
• Develop the mid-term technical goal and roadmap within the scope of your (often multiple) team(s). Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
  
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
  
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  

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