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Software Engineer II, RSVP

Google
Full-time
On-site
London, ENG

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Google's RSVP Software Engineer II in London onsite seeks versatile engineers to help build a secure, scalable event platform used by thousands of Googlers and millions of guests. You will contribute to backend services and frontend features, review code, triage issues, and collaborate with Product Managers and UX Designers to translate requirements into reliable solutions, using core technologies like Spanner, Protocol Buffers, and GCP. The role values solid fundamentals in programming languages, data structures, and algorithms, plus the ability to own features end to end and adapt across teams. To apply, tailor your resume to show full stack impact, API design, relational databases, and any Go or TypeScript experience, highlight collaboration and impact.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
  • 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • 1 year of experience with Go, TypeScript, Spanner, Java, Kotlin, SQL.
  • 1 year of experience with API Design, Relational Databases, Web Components.

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.

RSVP is the go-to event management tool for teams, used for everything from major flagship events like Google Input/Output (I/O) to intimate local workshops. Our platform enables Googlers to create beautiful event websites, manage guest lists and registrations, send branded emails, run engaging virtual and in-person sessions, and analyse event success. In this role, you will focus on building and evolving a secure, and scalable platform to support the full life cycle (LC) of Google's external events. We work on all aspects of product development, to deliver features that impact thousands of Googlers and millions of external guests.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  • Write product or system development code. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  • Contribute to the full stack development of the RSVP platform, including backend services, and frontend applications. Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable and reliable features for both event organizers and guests.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, UX Designers to translate requirements into technical solutions. Work with core technologies like Spanner for databases, Protocol Buffers for APIs, and Google Cloud Platform services.