Software Engineer II, Health Platform

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 or algorithms.
• Experience with integration testing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience developing accessible technologies and working on large scale projects.
• Experience with AI Algorithms, gRPC.

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.

Health Platform team's mission is building scalable and reliable back-end systems powered by intuitive automation solutions to reduce manual effort and ensure consistency across services. We work on streamlining development workflows, improving code quality, accelerating the delivery of new features and services through the creation and maintenance of automated tools and processes.

The Health Platforms and Devices team builds innovative products and services that help our users live longer, healthier lives. We bring together the best of Google technologies and AI, health behavior science, and user-centered design to help users organize the health and wellness data, get insight from it, and take action toward their health goals. We do this with a suite of apps, services, and health wearables. We aim to make consumer health more personal, proactive, and actionable.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and automation tools using Python/Java, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• 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).
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide among available technologies. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Comply with all company health and safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements.