Senior Backend Tech Lead - Scalable Commerce & Low Latency

Google; Town of Montana (WI); Vor Ort; USD 174.000 - 252.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Unified Commerce Platform to scale backend serving infrastructure, reduce latency, and enable global availability. You will define schemas for agent-to-merchant interactions, build end-to-end commerce journeys, and mentor backend engineers through distributed systems challenges.

The role requires 5+ years in software development (Java or equivalent), with experience in large-scale infrastructure, testing, and architecture, plus a passion for

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in Java or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Aufgaben

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Design and optimize high-throughput serving systems to drive down latency and maintain high service availability, designing and implementing automated circuit breakers, robust event logging, and granular telemetry.
• Build scalable, automated serving paths for enabling and dynamically routing inventory as merchants ramp up traffic, establishing a highly reliable central source of truth for integration health that downstream systems can depend on.
• Architect backend foundations to support UCP's rapid expansion into new international markets and unlock new structured verticals like groceries and lodging.
• Define the technical goal and backend architecture for UCP's core serving infrastructure, mentoring and guiding a team of backend engineers through complex distributed systems scaling challenges.

Kenntnisse

Java

Distributed systems

Software testing

Software architecture

Leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Jobbeschreibung

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Unified Commerce Platform to scale backend serving infrastructure, reduce latency, and enable global availability. You will define schemas for agent-to-merchant interactions, build end-to-end commerce journeys, and mentor backend engineers through distributed systems challenges.

The role requires 5+ years in software development (Java or equivalent), with experience in large-scale infrastructure, testing, and architecture, plus a passion for