Senior Software Engineer, Platforms and Ecosystem, Android
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.
- Android application development experience across a variety of Android versions.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 3 years of experience with iOS or Android application development.
- 3 years of experience with performance, large scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, and/or debugging.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
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.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be part of a team that makes Flutter on Android the absolute best it can be by making Flutter feel native on Android (e.g. by tying into system preferences and accessibility, or by integrating with native performance and memory profiling tools).
You'll allow seamless and efficient interoperability with native Android views and libraries, and encourage the growth and quality of the Flutter Android plugin ecosystem on pub.dev.
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
- Implement critical, performant features on Android devices.
- Work with teams throughout Google to deliver high-impact features to consumers and developers.
- Help build one of the biggest mobile platforms in the world, used by more than a million app developers.
- Dive deep into low-level Android OS internals to maximize performance while minimizing user-impacting resource usage.