Software Engineering Manager, Google Photos

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with Android or iOS application development.
• 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 in consumer-facing mobile applications.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 7 years of experience in mobile development and scaling mobile apps.
• 3 years of experience in designing, maintaining, and improving engineering systems.
• 3 years of experience working in a changing organization.

About the job

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.

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the organization's goals, align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
• Design and guide systems designs, and write product or system development code to solve problems.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Define and influence technical direction and strategy in conjunction with technical leads, helping the team make balanced trade-offs, and prioritize engineering excellence investments.
• Manage, support, and grow a team of client engineers (Android and iOS), leading the team with management excellence and shaping the team culture.