Senior Android Engineer, Navigation & Maps

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android), Navigation Experiences in Mountain View leads Android development for mapping and navigation features within the Geo team. You will work on large-scale mobile systems powering Maps services used by billions of people.

The role emphasizes performance profiling, memory/thermal optimization, and UI rendering on Android, with opportunities to mentor teammates and influence architecture across projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience.
• 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products, incl. 1 year in large-scale design/architecture.
• 3 years of Android application development.
• Experience with mobile performance profiling, memory/thermal optimization, and UI rendering on Android.

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.

Skills

Android development

Performance profiling

Memory optimization

UI rendering

Mentoring

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google's Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android), Navigation Experiences in Mountain View leads Android development for mapping and navigation features within the Geo team. You will work on large-scale mobile systems powering Maps services used by billions of people.

The role emphasizes performance profiling, memory/thermal optimization, and UI rendering on Android, with opportunities to mentor teammates and influence architecture across projects.