Staff Software Engineer, Mobile, Photos

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Google’s Staff Software Engineer, Mobile for Photos in Sydney is an onsite role shaping mobile experiences at scale. Requirements: bachelor’s degree or equivalent, eight years in software development, five years shipping products, five years Android development, and three years design and architecture. Preferred: master’s degree or PhD, data structures and algorithms, leadership experience, and exposure to videos or LLMs. You will set technical direction, collaborate on video editing features, and help a global team improve components and architecture while triaging issues. To apply, tailor your résumé to show end-to-end mobile delivery, cross-functional leadership, impact, and relevant video or AI work, and include a concise cover letter linking your strengths to Photos goals and onsite in Sydney.

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience in testing and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience with Android application development.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, with leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience in working with Large Language Model (LLM) models.
• Experience with videos.

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 Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction and strategy in conjunction with engineering managers and technical leads, helping the team make balanced trade-offs, and prioritize engineering excellence investments in a systemic way.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to design and build industry-leading video editing features.
• Work with other engineers on a global team to improve the software components and architecture.
• Identify, triage, debug, track and resolve issues in existing code.