PRODUCT AREA
Making the world's information universally accessible and useful doesn't stop at the desktop. The Mobile team builds tools to get you the information you need no matter where you are. Android has become the world's most popular mobile ecosystem, powering billions of devices, from smartphones to tablets, watches to TVs and everything in between. Whether adding to the core Android experience, forging new markets for digital content, creating immersive and portable versions of our products or managing relationships with a global community of developers, the Mobile team is giving you Google on the go.
JOB DESCRIPTION
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.
ADDITIONAL JOB DESCRIPTION
The Google Payments team has a goal of making payments fast, easy, and safe around the world. Our Google Payments team builds the mobile apps that serve millions of users around the world. Google Pay is a safe, simple, and helpful way to manage your money, giving you a clearer picture of your spending and savings. As the Engineering Manager, you will manage a medium-sized team to build user-facing products that provide the best user experience on Google Pay. You will work with a team of Product Managers and User Experience Designers to define, ideate, prototype, develop, test, and iterate the software products while ensuring software quality through rigid software engineering principles.
Qualifications
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage a software engineering team, and collaborate closely with Product Managers and User Experience Designers/Researchers to define/scope product features.
- Design and develop cross-platform (Android/iOS) mobile applications from frontend to backend.
- Set the technical direction and plan deliverables and milestones.
- Make direct technical contributions as well as provide guidance to team members.
- Work with teams across the organization to remove blocker and identify opportunities, and interact with leads and stakeholders.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of engineering team management/managing engineering teams.
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages such as Java, C/C++, or Python
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 6 years of experience managing a team of software engineers to build user facing software products with deep collaboration with Product Managers and User Experience Designers.
- Experience in large scale software development.
- Experience in mobile software development.
- Experience across India or emerging markets, with insights into the challenges facing the mobile app ecosystem.
