Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 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 leadership role.
• Experience in backend/full stack development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience in the payment space.
• Experience in the consumer or commerce space.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer (SWE) goes way beyond just Search. SWE 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 SWE Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. SWE 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.

Google Play is the marketplace where users discover apps, games, music, movies, and other digital content. The Google Play Commerce Infrastructure team is responsible for the under-the-hood systems that enable both free and paid acquisitions in the Google Play Store and other surfaces. This includes everything from the purchase flow, integration with payments systems, digital order lifecycle management, refund policy, abuse detection, and more. The team is responsible for supporting all acquisitions across Google Play and other Google products like Subscribe with Google, Stadia, Google One, and Digital Goods on Google Assistant. We are responsible for maintaining a high performance, low-latency, highly-reliable infrastructure that enables both buyers and sellers/developer experiences world-wide.

Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Additional Information
(Colorado only*) Minimum full-time salary range between $198,000 - $212,000 bonus equity benefits. *Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.

Responsibilities

• Integrate forms of payment across the regions we operate on, and improve the performance of existing ones.
• Work jointly with the Payments Product Area leading the teams that develop and integrate with the client- and server-side protocols for all forms of payments, improve/reduce the time it takes to launch forms of payments.
• Work with the Product and Business Development teams in Google Play to define key performance indicators and automate business rules around them (e.g., what forms of payment are good for annual subscriptions plans, etc.).
• Lead initiatives across teams to optimize existing payment methods and improve form of payment linking, paid user conversation, and payment success rates.