Engineering Manager, Mobile, YouTube Create

1 Month ago • 8-11 Years • Backend Development • Research & Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Engineering Manager for YouTube Create's mobile team in Bengaluru, you'll lead, mentor, and grow a team of Android and iOS engineers focusing on core infrastructure and performance. You'll drive technical direction, implement monitoring systems, oversee development lifecycles, and ensure high-quality feature delivery. Responsibilities include performance reviews, fostering collaboration, working with the Shorts Creation Team, and maintaining robust testing processes. This role requires extensive software development experience (8+ years), strong technical leadership (3+ years), and proven people management skills (2+ years).
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years technical leadership
  • 2+ years people management
  • Lead and mentor engineering teams
  • Drive technical direction and strategy
  • Oversee development lifecycle
Good to have:
  • Experience with cloud solutions
  • Video encoding/decoding experience
  • GPU-based media processing
  • Large-scale mobile app 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.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with technical leadership, leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • Experience architecting and developing cloud solutions to ambiguous problems.
  • Experience with video encoding, decoding, and transcoding.
  • Experience with GPU-based media processing (i.e., OpenGL ES, Metal).
  • Experience with large-scale mobile applications and complex architectures.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes way 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.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Android and iOS engineers specializing in core infrastructure and performance. Conduct regular performance reviews, provide constructive feedback, and support career development.
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Drive the technical direction and strategy for core infrastructure and performance optimization of the YouTube Create app. Implement and maintain instrumentation, profiling, and monitoring systems to track and improve performance metrics.
  • Oversee the development lifecycle for core infrastructure and performance-related features. Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of features, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
  • Implement and maintain robust testing and quality assurance processes. Work with Shorts Creation Team to ensure alignment and integration with broader platform initiatives.

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