Senior Staff Software Engineer, Search Ads, Quality, Backend

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Senior Staff Software Engineer for Google's Search Ads Quality Backend team, focusing on local search ads. The role involves technical leadership, designing, developing, and enhancing large-scale software solutions at the intersection of data, information retrieval, ML, and infrastructure to improve user experience and drive business growth.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  2. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  3. Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  4. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  5. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • full stack development
  • back-end development (Java, Python, GO, or C++)
  • front-end development (JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS)
  • design and architecture
  • testing and launching software products

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
  • data structures and algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • complex, matrixed organization experience