Senior Software Engineer, Google Messages Wear, Android

2 Weeks ago • 5-8 Years • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

This Senior Software Engineer role at Google focuses on developing and maintaining Google Messages for Wear OS. Responsibilities include writing and testing code, conducting code reviews, collaborating with product managers and UX designers, architecting the application stack, and working with the Wear OS platform team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Android development (Kotlin/Java), software design and architecture, and testing/launching software products. The role involves building new features, optimizing performance, and influencing product direction for next-generation wearable devices. This position requires a strong understanding of data structures and algorithms and experience working with large-scale systems.
Must have:
  • 5+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years Android app development
  • Experience with Kotlin/Java
  • Software design & architecture experience
  • Testing and launching software products
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in CS
  • Technical leadership experience
  • Wearable device design experience

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, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 3 years of experience with Android application development.
  • Experience using Kotlin/Java.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience designing for wearable devices.

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.

In this role, you will work on next generation devices to build new features, optimize performance, and influence product direction.

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

  • Write and test product or system development code.
  • Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  • Work with product managers and UX designers to scope and build new features.
  • Architect the full application stack, UX, database, and system performance.
  • Collaborate with the Wear OS platform team to influence design of new APIs.

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