Software Engineer II, Cloud Mobile

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.

In this role, you will serve as a member of a changing and agile team. You will focus on extending the development and maintenance of the mobile application, as well as its interconnected back-end systems, ensuring functionality and performance across the entire ecosystem. You will be instrumental in driving innovation and best practices within the team, contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle, from conception and design to deployment and ongoing support. You will have a chance to influence the architectural decisions and technical direction of the mobile offerings.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

• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Write product or system development code. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Develop and implement mobile architecture.
• Leverage artificial intelligence to enhance team performance. Drive improvement in the quality of mobile applications and back-end systems.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 1 year of experience with mobile development.
• Experience in one or more programming languages: Java, Kotlin, Objective C, Swift.