Android Technical Lead, Android CoreOS

1 Month ago • 5-8 Years • Mobile Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Android CoreOS team at Google is seeking an Android Technical Lead to build, maintain, and update core Android platform components. This role involves developing platform APIs and services, supporting and releasing services via Google Mobile Services (GMS), building tests and metrics for quality assurance, and reviewing code for best practices. Responsibilities also include troubleshooting system issues, guiding design reviews, and improving Android's accessibility, user-friendliness, security, and AI features. The ideal candidate has extensive Android development experience, leadership skills, and a passion for building a high-quality mobile operating system used globally. This position is crucial for enhancing the Android experience and expanding its capabilities.
Must have:
  • 5+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years Android app development
  • 3+ years software product experience
  • 1+ year software design & architecture
  • Build core platform APIs and services
  • Support & release services via GMS
  • Code review and feedback
  • Issue triage and resolution
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in CS
  • Technical leadership experience
  • Experience with accessible technologies

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
  • 3 years of experience with Android application development.
  • 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience in developing accessible technologies.

About the job

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.

The Android CoreOS team is responsible for building, maintaining, and updating the core foundational components of the Android platform. This team is made up of program management, the Android Frameworks, Media, Camera, Platform Programming Languages, System Health and Performance, and Updatability.

In this role, you will improve the quality and reliability of the Android experience while expanding the platform with features that make Android more accessible, user-friendly, secure, and enhanced with personalized Artificial Intelligence (AI).Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities

  • Build core platform APIs and services used to implement the Android Core Operating system.
  • Support and release services via Google Mobile Services (GMS) that are important to the Android Core Operating system. Build tests and in-field metrics to ensure the quality of these platform services.
  • Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  • Guide design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select among available technologies.

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