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Software Engineering Lead, Google Calendar

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

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Google is seeking a Software Engineering Lead for Calendar in Zurich, full time and onsite, to guide cross-functional teams on building scalable, low latency features and to mentor mid-level and junior engineers while driving DevAI adoption. This role emphasizes leadership and broad technical ownership across front-end, back-end, and architecture, with opportunities to switch teams as the business grows. Minimum qualifications include a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, five years of software development, three years in front-end and UI, three years testing, maintaining, or launching software, and one year in design or architecture; preferred include a master’s or PhD, five years in data structures and algorithms, one year in technical leadership, and experience building accessible technologies. To apply, tailor your resume to demonstrate tracked outcomes, architecture contributions, and collaboration with product and design, provide concrete examples of scalable features and accessibility work, highlight leadership and mentoring, and show comfort working onsite in Zurich.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience with front-end and user interface development.
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software product.
  • 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.

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. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Engineering Managers on planning, stack ranks, prioritization, and staffing.
  • Advance the app architecture. Ensure sustainable development of the app. Represent platform-specific considerations in cross-stack developments. Ensure technical alignment with other Workspace iOS apps.
  • Ensure the app is working reliably and with low latency.
  • Guide and elevate mid-level and junior iOS engineers on the team.
  • Enable the team to leverage DevAI productively.