Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack, 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

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

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

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• 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .