Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack, Labs

Google Inc.; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Inc. in Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack, Labs, to drive end-to-end development across platforms. You will work on large-scale systems, contribute to distributed architectures, and integrate Flutter/Dart frontend work with Kotlin-backed services.

The role emphasizes versatility, leadership, and the ability to switch projects as Google evolves its core products. In Labs, you’ll help incubate early-stage efforts aligned with Google’s mission.

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.
• Build and iterate on user-facing features from early concepts to production-ready client experiences, balancing speed and long-term stability.
• Collaborate with backend partners to design, integrate, and optimize client-side interactions for generative models.
• Manage local and automated mobile release pipelines using internal Google infrastructure to safely deploy updates.

Skills

Kotlin

Software development

Distributed computing concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

C++

Flutter

Dart

Spanner

Footprints

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• 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.

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

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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.

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