Software Engineer III, Full Stack, Publisher Optimization

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 full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

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.

In this role, you will take ownership of a real problem for app publishers the difficulty of defining good performance, and then delivering it. This goes well beyond ads and into general problems of e-commerce, user acquisition, user psychology, and device performance. You will work as part of a team that is exploring this new space and finding our way, and be willing to take on many kinds of work to get the job done, data analysis, coding prototypes, designing permanent large-scale systems, and building the final version. You will require flexibility in terms of programming languages, working style, and creative problem-solving.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the app ecosystem how apps are developed, how app developers make money from their creations, and what the future holds with thousands of new vibe-coded apps being launched every day.
• Investigate innovative technical solutions to these challenges, especially bringing Google's AI out of the lab and into real apps with billions in annual revenue at stake.
• Work anything from big data pipelines to meticulous pixel-level analysis of apps, and thinking from backend to frontend and back again to make everything work smoothly together.