Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
- 5 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.
- 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
- Experience in developing and implementing model-based solutions for user experience optimization.
- Experience in mobile app development and Android apps.
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.
YouTube Shorts is the fastest growing YouTube experience, reaching daily views across multiple channels (e.g., mobile, living room, desktop). business generating Shorts is critical to allow us to pay out a new generation of creators who power the new Shorts ecosystem. The YouTube Ads team is a new surface by building new ads formats and AI applications that feel native and less disruptive to users while delivering performance and value to our advertisers. In 2025, such innovations in our Shorts ads formats catalyzed over a 15% Year over Year (YoY) increase in Shorts ads growth. From a company level, your work will directly contribute to building a successful Shorts Ads product and affect our business generation roadmap for the future.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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.Responsibilities
- Collaborate cross-functionally to shape the product strategy and roadmap in partnership with partner teams, such as the Program Manager (PM) and UX teams.
- Mentor and lead a group of engineers to execute the roadmap while maintaining high technical excellence.
- Utilize strong and fast experimentation skills to quickly understand user needs and identify new UI/format opportunities with business impact.
- Contribute to developing a unified format serving architecture to guarantee a consistent user experience across product types and devices.
- Establish foundational framework solutions that enable innovating formats with deeper user learning and a profound comprehension of our users.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Mountain View, CA |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | https://goo.gle/4dbno6V |
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Skills
- Advertisingunmatched
- Algorithmsunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Natural Languageunmatched
- Business Growthunmatched
- C++ Programming Languageunmatched
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)unmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Storageunmatched
- Data Structuresunmatched
- Desktop PCunmatched
- Distributed Computingunmatched
- Ecosystemsunmatched
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)unmatched
- Go Programming Language (Golang)unmatched
- HTML (HyperText Markup Language)unmatched
- Information Retrievalunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Internet Searchunmatched
- Javaunmatched
- JavaScriptunmatched
- Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Mobile Applications Developmentunmatched
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)unmatched
- Needs Assessmentunmatched
- Network Designunmatched
- Product Planningunmatched
- Product Strategyunmatched
- Product/Service Launchunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Small Businessunmatched
- Software Architectureunmatched
- Software Architecture Designunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- User Interface Designunmatched
- User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
- YouTubeunmatched
Benefits
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
About Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.
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