Backend Engineer — Health AI & Scalable Systems

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Mountain View, CA is seeking software engineers to design, build, and operate scalable backend services, APIs, and data infrastructure powering core nutrition and wellbeing features.

You'll collaborate with engineers, product managers, UX designers, clinical specialists, and TPMs to turn requirements into robust designs and user-friendly features, using AI-assisted tools to accelerate coding, testing, and deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability.
• Experience developing and designing APIs.
• Experience with computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, software design).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and data infrastructure powering core nutrition and wellbeing features.
• Build and support the data systems and deployment/testing infrastructure connecting data pipelines with AI-powered health and coaching features.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, UX designers, clinical specialists, and Technical Program Managers (TPMs) to turn product requirements into technical designs and user-friendly features.
• Leverage modern AI-assisted developer tools to accelerate coding, debugging, test generation, and code understanding, applying strong engineering excellence and a human-in-the-loop mindset to ensure software reliability and security.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, maintain unit and integration test suites, and monitor production systems to ensure high performance and availability.

Skills

Distributed systems design

API design

CS fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google in Mountain View, CA is seeking software engineers to design, build, and operate scalable backend services, APIs, and data infrastructure powering core nutrition and wellbeing features.

You'll collaborate with engineers, product managers, UX designers, clinical specialists, and TPMs to turn requirements into robust designs and user-friendly features, using AI-assisted tools to accelerate coding, testing, and deployment.