Tech Lead Manager: Merchant Shopping AI/ML Growth & Equity

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target

Equity grants

Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA seeks a Tech Lead Manager for Merchant Shopping, AI/ML Insights and Growth. You will guide a team building core pricing insights and a decision simulation engine to drive growth for merchants of all sizes.

You will own architecture, scale initiatives, and collaborate across Merchant Shopping, Research, Ads Bidding, and gTech. Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in backend development and system design, 2+ years in people leadership, and hands-on C++/Java experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in backend software development and system architecture.
• 2 years of experience directly managing a team of software engineers, including performance evaluations, career growth, and project delivery.
• Experience coding in C++ and Java.
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining large-scale machine learning models or high-throughput data pipelines in production.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize distributed, high-performance in-memory pipeline processing, maintaining a low-latency compute footprint.
• Lead modeling evolution for pricing elasticity, conversion value, and profit models; expand architectures to support counterfactual business simulations for SMB decision‑making.
• Interface with Google Ads auction pipelines, inference stacks, and bidding mechanics to optimize pValue and ad rank.
• Own technical oversight for first‑party Google Channel integrations (e.g., Shopify Admin APIs, theme architectures, token workflows).
• Set design standards, drive code reviews, mentor engineers, and lead the project from early stage to scale, driving long‑term roadmap/OKRs, cross‑functional partnership (Merchant Shopping, Research, Ads Bidding, gTech, Sales), and a strong culture of engineering excellence.

Skills

Backend software development

System architecture

C++

Java

Machine learning pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA seeks a Tech Lead Manager for Merchant Shopping, AI/ML Insights and Growth. You will guide a team building core pricing insights and a decision simulation engine to drive growth for merchants of all sizes.

You will own architecture, scale initiatives, and collaborate across Merchant Shopping, Research, Ads Bidding, and gTech. Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in backend development and system design, 2+ years in people leadership, and hands-on C++/Java experience