Product Tech Manager: Universal Commerce API

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's gTech Professional Services team seeks an experienced engineer to support the API ecosystem for Shopping, focusing on Universal Commerce Protocol, Google Business Profile, and Merchant Center integrations. You will help partners implement and optimize integrations while ensuring high data quality.

Collaborating with product managers and engineers, you will advocate for partner needs, deliver technical guidance, and contribute to scalable tools and resources for the developer community.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working with client-side web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP).
• 3 years of experience coding with one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python).
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues for internal/external partners or customers.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and maintain technical repositories (e.g., on code hosting platform), applying best practices for repository management, linters, CI, community triage, developer tooling, and technical documentation (READMEs).
• Provide high touch technical guidance, partner education, implementation reviews, and troubleshooting for strategic partners to guarantee successful integrations and resolve technical challenges within SLAs.
• Develop technical tools, open-source utilities (SDKs, scripts), and documentation to expedite partner implementation, improve DevX, and scale with Engineering.
• Work with Product Managers, Partner Operations Managers, and Engineering to channel partner feedback and prioritize new product features and tool requests to improve processes, performance, and product offerings.
• Identify, drive, and optimize growth for new business opportunities by leveraging data and Google technologies.

Skills

HTML/CSS/JS

Programming languages

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Google's gTech Professional Services team seeks an experienced engineer to support the API ecosystem for Shopping, focusing on Universal Commerce Protocol, Google Business Profile, and Merchant Center integrations. You will help partners implement and optimize integrations while ensuring high data quality.

Collaborating with product managers and engineers, you will advocate for partner needs, deliver technical guidance, and contribute to scalable tools and resources for the developer community.