Software Engineer III, Fitbit Wearables Experiences, WearOS

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with Android application development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years of experience in building mobile apps for Android using Kotlin.
• Experience creating user interfaces for embedded devices such as graphics/windowing SDKs, fonts, haptic interfaces, accessibility, internationalization and localization.
• Experience with networking protocols like HTTP and clients like Retrofit.
• Knowledge of the Android SDK, and design patterns such as Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM).
• Ability to implement modular architecture.

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.

Deliver on Wear OS the very best health and fitness experiences in the smartwatch market through stable, scalable, integrated Android application packages (APKs) that sustain high usage of Fitbit apps on wearables, promote high Fitbit premium attach rate, and motivate the purchase of future Pixel devices.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Create user interfaces, collaborating with our UI/UX designers.
• Develop user-facing applications for wearable devices.
• Practice, uphold and promote high quality and reliability standards, respect clean code principles, implement unit and integration tests.
• Comply with all company health and safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements.