Senior Software Engineer Android, Google Photos

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Google Photos team. You will design and implement features while collaborating with engineers to enhance the Android architecture. This role is ideal for those with a strong background in software development, particularly in Android, and a passion for user-centered design.

Qualifications

• 5 years of software development experience.
• Experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in Android software development.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new features for Google Photos.
• Define and improve Android architecture for Google Photos.
• Mentor and lead junior engineers.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Software Development

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Senior Software Engineer Android, Google Photos

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• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
  
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  
• 3 years of experience building Android software products.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with Kotlin/Java.
• Experience with technical leadership.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
  

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new features for Google Photos.
• Work with other engineers to define, and improve Google Photos Android architecture, making it scalable, reliable, and easy to reason.
• Mentor and lead other junior engineers on the team.

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