Engineering Manager, Google Play Store

1 Month ago • 8-11 Years • Backend Development • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Engineering Manager at Google Play Store, you'll lead and manage a growing team of full-stack Software Engineers. You will be responsible for building capabilities for WearOS's unique ecosystem and delivering a premium next-gen app storefront. This role requires collaboration with Engineering Product Managers and User Experience teams across Play and WearOS. Responsibilities include overseeing large-scale projects, contributing to product strategy, and fostering team development. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical expertise, leadership skills, and experience in Android or web development, preferably with Java/Kotlin. The role involves managing a significant product budget and deployment across multiple international sites. You'll be working on Google Play, a platform offering music, movies, books, apps, and games for various devices, powered by the cloud and synced across devices and web.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years technical leadership
  • 2+ years people management
  • Android or Web Development experience
  • Lead and manage engineering teams
  • Build capabilities for WearOS
Good to have:
  • Experience managing Software Engineers
  • Java/Kotlin programming experience
  • Google backend tech stack experience
  • Android development experience

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 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 in Android or Web Development

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience managing a team of Software Engineers.
  • Programming experience in Java and/or Kotlin.
  • Experience with Google backend tech stack.
  • Experience with Android development.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering 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 Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. 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.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

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

  • Work with Engineering Product Managers, and User Experience across Play and WearOS.
  • Lead and manage a growing team of full stack Software Engineers.
  • Build out capabilities needed for WearOS’s unique ecosystem needs, including associated cross form factor features on phones.
  • Deliver a premium next-gen app storefront for WearOS.

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