Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 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/team leadership role.
- Experience with performance instrumentation and improvement of systems, profile-guided optimization, memory management, etc.
- Experience in Android development, including native/C++.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in planning, tracking, prioritizing work for a team.
- Experience with effective communication across a variety of audiences: engineering, product management, and leadership.
- Experience in server-side development, including building and maintaining performant, mission-critical services.
- Experience in API design.
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to maintain a culture of robust documentation.
Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering 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 Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. 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.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.
The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.
The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.
- Exhibit strategic impact and own outcomes for the team's delivery in the complex Geo Auto environment. This involves external partners, internal collaboration across Geo and outside, strict timelines and long term planning.
- Together with the Technical Leads, scope problems and navigation without significant assistance needed from executive leadership, collaborating readily with peers and stakeholders.
- Exhibit strong judgment in balancing the immediate needs and long-term health of owned areas. Develop project roadmaps, establish team goals, set priorities, coordinate resources, and provide technical leadership, directly or in tandem with Technical Leads, across a broader set of responsibilities.
- Reduce chaos in the system; solve problems in ways that are not difficult to maintain, and balance necessary vs. accidental complexity. Assess when to invest resources in a significant new project vs. when to apply improvements to existing solutions.
