Senior Software Engineer
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.
As a Senior Software
Engineer, you will help solve important technical challenges, such as quickly
and reliably delivering the best Search experience for local users in Africa.
You will create and execute ideas that will better serve relevant and useful
information to users, and set goals for how to re-image the entire online
Search experience. You’ll build on and contribute to cutting-edge technologies
that run Google Search, a product used by billions of users daily. You will
collaborate with geographically dispersed teams within Search as well as
partner product teams such as Android, Assistant, and YouTube to create an
all-encompassing experience. You will use your technical knowledge to identify,
build, monitor, maintain, and continuously improve features and infrastructure
to enable and sustain Google Search success in Africa.
In Google Search,
we’re re-imagining what it means to search for information – any way and
anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and
expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and
useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search
team, you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people
globally.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with
Product Management, User Experience, Infrastructure, and other teams to
identify opportunities, design, and build new features as well as improve
existing features.
Manage prototyping,
live experimentation, iterating on search quality, leveraging and contributing
to powerful technologies/infrastructure (e.g., NLP, Machine Learning), and
maintenance of signals, models, and infrastructure.
Collect and analyze
the performance of features and platforms, including but not limited to
reliability and latency, customer/ecosystem usage, experiments, and Machine
Learning training data.
Review code written by
other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style
guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, test ability, and efficiency).
Own end-to-end
features from conception to launch.
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or
equivalent practical experience.
Candidates will
typically have 5 years of experience with software development in one or more
programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
Typically 3 years of
experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of
experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
Candidates will
typically have 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading
project teams and setting technical direction.
Experience working
with distributed systems at scale.
Familiarity with
Africa market or user expectations.
Ability to work with
new technology, develop and implement short and long-term creative solutions.
Ability to quickly
understand and extend/refactor code written by others.
Excellent
collaborating and people management skills to work within a cross-functional
team.
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