Software Engineer II, YouTube Shopping

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Google’s YouTube Shopping team is seeking a Software Engineer II to join full-time onsite in Zürich. The role blends backend and frontend work across YouTube apps, with infrastructure for rendering features and opportunities to influence the technical roadmap. Requirements include a bachelor’s degree, at least one year of software development in Python, Java, C++, or JavaScript, solid data structures and algorithms, and full-stack experience. Preferred are a master’s or PhD, accessibility work, Go or Rust in the backend, and Python for ML. To apply, tailor your résumé to show scalable systems, end-to-end features, ownership and measurable impact, and highlight collaboration and shipping in a creative environment.

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.
• 1 year of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, 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 field.
  
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
  
• Experience in backend coding languages such as GOLang, Rust, or Java.
  
• Experience in ML model coding languages (e.g., Python).

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

Video commerce is changing the way that people decide what to buy, as part of the YouTube Shopping team, you will be at the forefront of this shift. Shopping is one of YouTube’s priorities, giving creators new ways to monetize, viewers a new way to engage with the creators they love, and retailers a new sales channel to build their businesses.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new features in the YouTube apps.
• Design and build infrastructure for serving and rendering of these features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Participate in setting the technical roadmap.