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Software Engineer III, Merchant Shopping, Local Inventory

Google
1 day ago
Full-time
On-site
Zürich, ZH

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Google is hiring a Software Engineer III for Merchant Shopping Local Inventory in Zurich onsite. You’ll build scalable commerce experiences used by billions, with opportunities to rotate across teams and tackle full stack challenges from design to deployment. Key qualifications include a bachelor’s degree or equivalent and two years of software development experience, or one year with an advanced degree; preferred are strong data structures and algorithms skills, experience with accessible technologies, readiness to participate in product launch discussions involving privacy and legal, and knowledge of Jetski or similar tooling. To apply, tailor your resume to show measurable impact, highlight cross functional collaboration and launches, and emphasize onsite Zurich availability.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.
  • Experience managing product launch approval discussions (privacy, legal, engineering, etc.).
  • Experience with agentic coding in Jetski or similar tooling.

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.

In this role, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

People shop on Google more than a billion times a day - and the Commerce team is responsible for building the experiences that serve these users. The mission for Google Commerce is to be an essential part of the shopping journey for consumers - from inspiration to to a simple and secure checkout experience - and the best place for retailers/merchants to connect with consumers. We support and partner with the commerce ecosystem, from large retailers to small local merchants, to give them the tools, technology and scale to thrive in today’s digital world.

Responsibilities

  • Write product or system development code.
  • Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  • 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 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.