Senior Mobile & Backend Systems Engineer - Labs

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

Job summary

Google hires software engineers to develop next-generation technologies for massive-scale information access. The role involves working on projects across full-stack areas including information retrieval, distributed computing, and AI-driven features. Labs focuses on incubating early-stage efforts to advance core products with new technologies.

Individual pay varies by skills, experience, and education. The position is based in Mountain View, CA with in-person interview requirements and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• Experience in Kotlin programming language.
• 3 years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend distributed systems, microservices architectures, or high-throughput APIs.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, build, and maintain the Dreambeans mobile apps for iOS and Android using Flutter and Dart. Keep the codebase clean, modular, and performant.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain native platform integrations to handle OS-specific services and resolve complex linking or compiler issues (such as Flutter-iOS header resolution).
• Build and iterate on user-facing features from early concepts and wireframes to production-ready client experiences, making pragmatic technical tradeoffs between development speed and long-term system stability.
• Collaborate with backend partners to design, integrate, and optimize client-side interactions for generative image, voice, and video models.
• Manage local and automated mobile release pipelines, utilizing internal Google mobile infrastructure to safely deploy updates.

Skills

Software development experience

Kotlin

Backend distributed systems design

Testing/launching software

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Flutter

Dart

Agency

ADK

Spanner

Footprints

Sawmill

F1

Manifold

Job description

Google hires software engineers to develop next-generation technologies for massive-scale information access. The role involves working on projects across full-stack areas including information retrieval, distributed computing, and AI-driven features. Labs focuses on incubating early-stage efforts to advance core products with new technologies.

Individual pay varies by skills, experience, and education. The position is based in Mountain View, CA with in-person interview requirements and