Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, HCI, Design, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience in designing and implementing user interfaces (UIs).
• Experience in development or prototyping.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of coding experience in one or more of the listed languages: Java or C/C .
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (Backbone, Angular or Ember) and CSS pre-processing frameworks (Sass or Less).
• Experience with scripting languages, such as Python, Ruby, etc.
• Experience with appealing visuals and smart, extensible code.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow. " Google's UX Engineers are versatile and passionate about taking on new problems to push technology forward. They're comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products used by millions of people every day.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google's businesses.

As a UX Engineer, you'll work on the front end of our products in a challenging, fast-paced environment, helping to bridge UX best practices and production execution. You'll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to enable efficient, high quality execution and communications and launch innovative features to a global audience.
User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users' needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products' unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google's philosophy: "Focus on the user and all else will follow."

Responsibilities

• Work closely with UX designers, project managers, and back-end engineers to implement versatile front-end solutions to web development issues.
• Explore product concepts to find promising directions that address both human and business needs.
• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers.
• Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in front-end technologies.
• Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team.