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.
The UX Research Tooling team is an internal tooling team within Core UX focused on simplifying research workflows so insights can quickly power product decisions across Google. We build and maintain tools that help Google create amazing products. These tools assist and empower design and research at Google by enabling faster execution, higher fidelity, and greater impact.
Our goal is to build a growing research ecosystem where knowledge enhances strategic decisions and user insights directly drive impactful product development. Our goal is to integrate a deep understanding of our users into the core of every product decision.
The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
Responsibilities
- Develop, scope, design, and own key software components and features for the team’s full-stack suite of products.
- Act as a key technical point of contact, building strong collaborations and actively influencing internal engineering teams, UX designers, and product owners.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and UX researchers to identify ambiguous problems and unmet needs, generating the ideas required to solve them.
- Take ownership of and enhance the team's engineering artifacts for your areas of work, ensuring all aspects of this technical work are high quality.
- Manage outcomes for projects that span multiple quarters, including working with modern front-end technologies (e.g., React, Angular) and back-end systems, and taking full ownership from ideation through to deployment and long-term maintenance.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience with full-stack development, across the back end, such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, or equivalent.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
- 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- Experience working with front-end web technologies and a reasonably large React or Angular codebase.
- Experience with engineering artifacts, such as reliability monitoring and alerting, security and privacy practices and techniques, documentation, integration testing, and production hygiene and support processes.
- Experience using Google Cloud Platform and App Engine.
- Ability to communicate effectively with other software developers and stakeholders at multiple levels including managers and junior staff.