Minimum qualifications:

• 4 years of experience as a software engineer, developer, or equivalent technical experience.
• Experience in programming for Android, Java and/or Kotlin.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with third-party developers to launch large-scale integration, conducting technical workshops/hackathons, and providing technical advice to large companies.
• Experience working in a support or consulting relationship with customers.
• Experienced in Android development and testing.
• Experience as a software developer, architect, technology advocate, CTO, or consultant working with mobile technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and communicate cross-functionally and externally.
• Effective public speaking skills, with experience presenting to large technical audiences.

About the job

In this role you will be working closely with Android developers, to build and optimize their apps for Wear OS. The team works closely with internal product development teams to bring new platform features to market,enable lighthouse app experiences, and educate the developer ecosystem to build modern, beautiful,and efficient apps on Google's smartwatch platform.The team advocates for developers within Google by representing their needs. They focus on external tooling and APIs including but not limited to Compose for Wear OS, Tiles, Watch faces, and Health Services.
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, services, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Additional Information

(Colorado only*) Minimum full-time salary range between $130,000 - $139,000 bonus equity benefits.

*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation range for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.

Responsibilities

• Work with internal and external developer partners on integrations across Google's platforms.
• Work closely with developer partners and Google Product teams to spec, develop and launch features with deep impact on the ecosystem.
• Provide engineering direction and support to design, build and launch new feature integrations with partners.
• Lead regular, engineering-focused meetings with partners to help them design new systems, troubleshoot partner issues and provide innovative solutions, improve UX and solve complex code problems at a scale of millions of users.
• Work on the core source code of Google's products with other Engineers to identify, reproduce and/or resolve issues that are affecting top partners.