Software Engineering Manager (For Women in Tech Candidates)

3 Weeks ago • 8-11 Years • Research & Development • Backend Development

About the job

Job Description

As a Software Engineering Manager at Google, you'll lead and mentor a team of engineers, ensuring project success across diverse areas like AI, distributed systems, and more. Responsibilities include planning, execution, and delivery of projects, supporting team member career development, and creating an inclusive environment. You'll contribute to product strategy and optimize code, working on large-scale projects internationally. The role demands strong technical expertise and leadership skills, managing budgets and deployments across multiple sites.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years technical leadership
  • 2+ years team leadership
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • Manage engineering teams
  • Lead project delivery
  • Support career development
Good to have:
  • Master's or PhD in Engineering/CS
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems
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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, 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 supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems.

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.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of software engineers and create an inclusive and safe environment that enables them to grow.
  • Lead the overall planning, execution, and successful delivery of projects.
  • Provide a clear goal and strategy for the team.
  • Support career development of team members.
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