Staff Software Engineer, Front End, Google Workspace

Google; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google is hiring a software engineer in North Carolina to lead Room Experience teams and drive next-generation Meet and Workspace features. You will guide full-stack development across backend and frontend, partnering with product, UX, and hardware teams to deliver scalable, real-time capabilities for enterprise users.

Based in the Raleigh/Durham area, you will influence architecture, mentoring, and delivery timelines while advancing DevAI practices and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with full stack development across backend and frontend.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the software engineers spanning all Room Experience teams.
• Collaborate with product and UX to determine new use cases and leverage devices and sensors in conference rooms.
• Ensure teams roadmap fits into larger outlook for Meet and Workspace.
• Invest in team growth and adapt DevAI practices to the organization.

Skills

Software development

Full stack

Technical leadership

Team leadership

Client development

Realtime communications

Hardware platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

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

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Raleigh, NC, USA; Durham, NC, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in leading teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with client development on web, iOS, or Android platforms.
• Experience in the Enterprise space, specifically around realtime communications platforms.
• Experience with hardware platforms, specifically in kiosk or appliance applications deployed at scale.

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. AI will change the future of work in profound ways, and our products— Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Vids and Meet are at the forefront. From pre-computed summaries for email threads, summaries for meetings, and videos created from a document using lifelike AI avatars, our AI opportunity is huge. Our mission is to meaningfully connect people so they can create, build, and grow together and as part of the team you can build how productivity tools should work 5-10 years into the future. You will work with model builders (Google DeepMind), work with exceptional leaders, and have the ability to impact billions of users across the world. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Lead the software engineers spanning all Room Experience teams.
• Collaborate with product and UX to determine new use cases. Determine how we leverage mobile devices and sensors in the conference rooms. Design new product features to serve business use cases in the conference room.
• Partner with peer managers and technical leads to ensure teams roadmap fits into larger outlook for Meet and Workspace.
• Invest in the team by growing members in their own career development, including how individuals and the team/organization are adopting new DevAI practices.
• Utilize communication skills inside and outside of the team, adapting messaging of complex technical details for engineering and non-engineering audiences.

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 .