Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack, Labs

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

Job summary

Socket.dev in Mountain View seeks an experienced software engineer to help design, build, and operate scalable backend services and high‑quality client applications. You will work across full stack, with emphasis on distributed systems, performance, and reliability.

You'll collaborate with backend teams and product partners, contributing Kotlin, C++, and Flutter/Dart skills to shipping production features for a fast-growing platform.

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 (e.g., custom native plugins, platform channels, native build configurations) 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 (such as Dogfoody, CDPush, and internal release suites) to safely deploy updates.

Skills

Kotlin

Backend distributed systems

Testing software/launching

Software development languages

Flutter/Dart (preferred)

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Flutter

Dart

C++

Manifold

Footprints

Sawmill

F1

Spanner

Plx

Job description

Minimum 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in a "0-to-1" product development environment, with a bias for action and rapid iteration.
• Experience with or willingness to learn Flutter/Dart for frontend development.
• Experience with building and optimizing agentic workflows (e.g., using Agency, ADK).
• Experience with asynchronous processing and distributed systems.
• Experience with C++.
• Familiarity with Google's backend technologies such as compute infrastructure, Manifold, Footprints, Sawmill, F1, Spanner, Plx.

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.

Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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 (e.g., custom native plugins, platform channels, native build configurations) 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 (such as Dogfoody, CDPush, and internal release suites) to safely deploy updates.