Software Engineering Manager, Wear Engineering Productivity

7 Hours ago • 8-11 Years • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

This Software Engineering Manager role at Google focuses on improving engineering productivity within Fitbit's Wearables division. Responsibilities include setting team priorities, aligning strategies across teams, managing individual performance, developing technical roadmaps, and leading a team of software and test engineers. The role requires technical expertise throughout the product lifecycle, from design to delivery of scalable infrastructure. The ideal candidate will define team strategy and roadmap for developer tools and test infrastructure adoption, working closely with engineering and product leads. The work involves improving developer velocity, scalability, and testability for next-generation wearables.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years technical leadership
  • 2+ years people management
  • Excellent communication & collaboration
  • Lead engineering productivity initiatives
Good to have:
  • Master's/PhD in CS
  • Matrix organization experience
  • Android/mobile 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, Java, Go).
  • 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 driving engineering productivity objectives such as faster releases, improving feature velocity and quality.
  • Experience working on improving the quality and performance of android or mobile devices.
  • Excellent communication skills and cross-functional collaboration.

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.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the engineering and product leads to help define the engineering workflows as well as the product. You will operate with scale and speed. You will provide guidance to the software engineers.

Fitbit’s wide range of innovative products, including smartwatches, trackers, and a smart scale, help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration, and guidance to reach their health and fitness goals. Coupled with our leading software and Fitbit Premium, our immersive platform experience delivers personalized experiences, insights, and guidance to support our users’ health and wellness. Fitbit’s mission has always been to help make everyone in the world healthier and now, as part of Google we’ll be able to make health even more accessible to everyone.

Responsibilities

  • Set and communicate team priorities that support the 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 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 the team. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
  • Lead a team of Software and Test Engineers focused on improving developer velocity, scalability and testability for the next generation of Wearables.
  • Provide technical expertise throughout the product life cycle from design to delivery of scalable build/test/release infrastructure. Define the team strategy and roadmap for the adoption of developer tools and test infrastructure.

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