Staff Software Engineer, Front End, Google Workspace

Socket.dev; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google invites experienced software engineers to join our expanding Meet/Workspace effort. You will lead across Room Experience teams, shaping features that integrate mobile devices and sensors for modern conference rooms.

As a senior engineer, you will mentor and grow teams while aligning roadmaps with product strategy and AI-powered development practices. This role emphasizes versatile problem solving and clear communication across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• 3 years of full stack development across back-end and front-end.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the software engineers spanning all Room Experience teams.
• Collaborate with product and UX to determine new use cases and how to leverage devices and sensors in conference rooms.
• Partner with managers and technical leads to align team roadmap with Meet and Workspace objectives.
• Invest in the team’s growth and adoption of DevAI practices.
• Communicate complex technical details effectively to both engineering and non-engineering audiences.

Skills

Full stack development

Backend languages

Frontend technologies

Technical leadership

Team leadership

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• 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.