Software Engineer III, Chrome Autofill

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.
• Software development experience in C++.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience in Android Development or iOS Development.
• Experience in Web Browsers, Windows Development or Chrome.
• Experience in Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, Scaffolding, Objective-C, Flume, PLX.

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.

We aim to build the best possible experience for users on the web, and when we are successful, we use our influence to make the open, indexable web better, helping Google achieve its overall mission.

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

• Partner closely with engineering teams in Munich and cross-functional peers (i.e., PM, UX, UXR) to evolve and deliver how our users take action on the web.
• Partner with peers to design solutions for ambiguous problems to improve the client and server backends. 
• Design and implement new Autofill features for Chrome on various operating systems, primarily working with C++ code.
• Enhance form detection and server-side classification algorithms to improve Chrome's ability to accurately detect web form fields and process form data reliably.
• Collaborate on OS-level integrations and UI enhancements for Chrome Autofill, involving languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript (Desktop settings), Java (Android), and Objective-C++ (iOS).