Google Looking For Engineering Manager, Search, Local Services and Experience at Mountain View, CA Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree 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 projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Experience with search tech.

Preferred qualifications:
Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.

3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.

3 years of experience leading Engineering teams.

Exceptional analytical skills, keen intuition, and the ability to implement and launch features to production.

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.

The Services team aims to make Search the best place to find, compare, and book trusted service providers. Services is a key Local vertical within the Search Journeys team, and we are working on a wide range of projects to ensure that users can confidently find and hire reputable local home service providers. We care deeply about the local services marketplace, working thoughtfully to deliver high quality leads to service merchants while providing the most relevant results to customers for their services task. Underpinning all of these efforts is a deep focus on acquiring the most accurate and useful service business data to best serve both customer and merchants.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

Drive execution on service initiatives by leveraging relevant content from past customers to increase engagement while finding a provider and leveraging users’ past actions to make journeys more seamless and contextualized.

Be responsible for architecting, developing, evaluating, and deploying various features and improvements to help make Google one of the best Services Search experiences.

Form hypotheses, set up and run live experiments, offline evaluations (side-by-side), analyzing results, feature engineering, and lots of creativity.

Set the technical strategy for your team, collaborating with cross-functional partners to develop a clear roadmap.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.