Software Engineering Manager II

3 Hours ago • 8-11 Years • Backend Development • Full Stack Development • $197,000 PA - $291,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Software Engineering Manager II at Google Photos, you'll lead and mentor a team of engineers, setting priorities aligned with broader organizational goals. You'll manage project goals, contribute to product strategy, and ensure team optimization. Responsibilities include defining team priorities, aligning strategies across teams, setting clear individual expectations, providing regular performance feedback and coaching, developing mid-term technical roadmaps, designing and vetting systems, reviewing code, and ensuring adherence to best practices. The role requires experience in managing large-scale projects, working in a matrixed organization, and a deep understanding of user behavior. Google Photos is a widely used photo sharing and storage service, requiring expertise in client-side (web/mobile), server-side (search, storage), and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision).
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years technical leadership
  • 2+ years people management
  • Experience with multiple programming languages
  • Project and team oversight
  • System design and code review
Good to have:
  • Master's/PhD in CS
  • Experience in a matrixed organization
  • AI solution building
  • Large-scale system design
  • User experience optimization
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

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:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.
  • Experience in software development with a focus on designing and building scalable, high-quality software systems.
  • Experience in building AI solutions iterating on quality and evaluation.
  • Experience in designing, maintaining, and improving large scale engineering systems.
  • Ability to deeply understand a set of users and their behavior, and fine tune user experience for everyone.

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 Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
  • Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
  • Develop the mid-term technical goal and roadmap within the scope of your often multiple teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
  • Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
  • Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

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