Tech Lead Manager, Full-Stack, Display and Video 360 Connected TV Team

Google LLC; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave (STD + Baby Bonding)

Baby Bonding Leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Tech Lead Manager for the Display and Video 360 Connected TV Team in Kirkland, WA. You will guide a small engineering team while contributing to core features across the stack, with an emphasis on scalable, high-availability systems.

The role blends leadership with technical delivery, including end-to-end architecture and partnerships with publishers and SSPs. English proficiency required for global collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience with 5 years testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of software design/architecture experience.
• Experience in people leadership or team management.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of engineers (up to 6 reports) focused on Connected TV.
• Balance leadership with hands-on coding and feature delivery for at least 50% of time.
• Lead end-to-end system architecture for user-facing products and APIs.
• Architect and scale high-availability bidding and pacing infrastructure.
• Direct TV-native ad formats integration with SSPs and OEM partners.

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

People leadership

Full-stack engineering

Backend/frontend integration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

Java

C++

Angular

Dart

Spanner/F1

Job description

Tech Lead Manager, Full-Stack, Display and Video 360 Connected TV Team

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In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, including 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience in people leadership or team management and management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
• Experience or strong interest in integrating LLMs or recommendation systems into production user experiences.
• Demonstrated strong technical background as a full-stack or backend engineer with experience building large-scale, high-availability distributed systems.

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.

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

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• Manage and mentor a team of engineers (up to 6 direct reports) focusing on Connected TV, fostering technical excellence, leadership, and strong engineering velocity.
• Balance people leadership with technical contribution by independently designing, coding, and launching critical features for at least 50% of your time.
• Lead the end-to-end system architecture and implementation of user-facing products, partner-facing APIs, and distributed real-time serving layers using Java, C++, Spanner/F1, and Angular/Dart.
• Architect and scale high-availability bidding and pacing infrastructure to handle extreme live event traffic surges.
• Direct the integration of TV-native ad formats and collaborate closely with premier streaming publishers, major Supply-Side Platforms (SSPs), and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners on technical integrations.

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