Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
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.
Google Fi’s mission is to transform the connectivity experience for millions of people making it straightforward, safe, and helpful. Within Google Fi, our team enables growth funnels and focuses on efficient acquisition of valuable users by building the best shopping and subscription experience. Our impact will be incredibly important to the product, and our impact will be visible both within and outside of the organizations.
The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and reliable software solutions that power Google Fi’s buyflow experience.
Establish best engineering practices and influence them through solid design decisions, processes, and tools.
- Advocate engineering excellence on the web platform, focusing on performance, reliability, monitoring, and testing.
- Identify and reduce technical debt, making our systems more scalable and maintainable.
- Define and implement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and engineering metrics, especially for web.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 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 testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
- 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience in software development and building web-based applications.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with API design and development.
- Experience with front-end engineering.
Proficiency in Java, Typescript and databases.