The Application Engineer role at Google involves designing, building, and testing internal applications supporting financial planning and analysis (FP&A) business processes. Responsibilities include implementing software products using various SDLC methodologies, collaborating with stakeholders to solve complex problems, building consensus across teams, partnering with internal business teams on system goals and roadmaps, and setting technical direction for a small engineering team. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in application design and integration, experience with Java, Python, or C++, and familiarity with Google Cloud. Experience with financial engineering, web-scale databases, data pipelines, and integration with vendor products is preferred.