Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing strategic projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Interested in designing groundbreaking product features, large system diagrams, API design, and writing good clean code.
- Interested in working with product managers, UX designers and other cross-functional teams, like: Marketing, Operations, Analytics.
- Interested in growing your engineering skills.
About the job
Like Google’s own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer (SWE) goes way beyond just Search. SWE Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a SWE Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. SWE teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started – and as a manager, you guide the way.
Google Play Points is critical to Play, Android, and Google. Google Play Points manages hundreds of millions in promotional budget (and growing) and covers multiple billions in user spend. We landed the program in 9 markets and are going to scale and expand to more countries, improve and optimize the program from many perspectives and do more Android device OEM partnerships and integrate with other Google products (e.g. Pixel, Google One).
In this role, you’ll touch all parts of Google Play: Google Play Store, commerce flow, user library, document publishing, reporting, developer console, tooling, growth platforms, and promotions. There are challenges in areas like user growth/rewards/engagement, reporting, analytics. You’ll own deep problems, own areas of the product end-to-end, and drive the roadmap and execution of their areas.
Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of software engineers, and form a new team to drive and build critical gamified product features covering gamify of points earning features, e.g. user play mini-games to earn rewards.
- Drive the technical direction of the team: mission, roadmap, tasks, meetings, OKRs, code reviews.
- Develop new product features that involve full stack: Android, core services, storage, data collection/aggregation, etc.
- Develop new core backends features involving: Java, Boq, and Spanner, where you’ll familiarize and change backends across Google Play: like Google Play commerce, developer APIs, Growth Platform, Growth Driver, Promotions, and working with cross-functional teams, like Product, Marketing, Business Operations, Legal, and Privacy.
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