Senior Mobile & Frontend Engineer — Shorts Personalization

Socket.dev; San Bruno (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's YouTube Shorts team in San Bruno, CA is seeking a software engineer to drive full‑stack development across client (Android/iOS) and server‑side features, using C++ frontend serving and cross‑platform UI work. You will work with ML‑driven personalization and data pipelines to optimize the Shorts experience at scale.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years in Android development, client‑side development, and C++. Prefer Master/PhD and iOS experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of Android development experience.
• 2 years of client-side development experience.
• 2 years of data-driven UI personalization experience.
• 2 years of experience building features for Android platforms and cross‑platform UI components.
• Experience programming in C++.

Responsibilities

• Drive full‑stack development for YouTube Shorts consumption experience across client development (native Android and iOS), cross‑platform UI and C++ frontend serving (server platform).
• Leverage Rasta, SQL/Go pipelines, and other tools for experiment and data analysis.
• Pioneer ML‑driven personalization to optimize the Shorts player UI.

Skills

Android development

C++

Client-side development

Cross-platform UI

Data-driven personalization

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

SQL

Go

Job description

Google's YouTube Shorts team in San Bruno, CA is seeking a software engineer to drive full‑stack development across client (Android/iOS) and server‑side features, using C++ frontend serving and cross‑platform UI work. You will work with ML‑driven personalization and data pipelines to optimize the Shorts experience at scale.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years in Android development, client‑side development, and C++. Prefer Master/PhD and iOS experience.