Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with software development in Java or C++.
- 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms in either an academic or industry setting.
- 1 year of experience working with mobile application development (Java for Android/Android SDK).
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
- Experience with web application development.
- Experience in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test development.
- Familiarity working in Unix/Linux environments.
- Familiarity with scalable design/testing practices in support of developer teams.
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About the job
Google's software developers 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 developers 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 developer, 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 developers 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 is a software development 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, software developers 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 software developers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.
Responsibilities
- Design robust mobilefeatures focused on performance, maintainability, and reusability using Java and C++.
- Develop automated tests as part of new and existing feature development.
- Participate in design and code reviews for teammates and other Chrome/Google teams.
- Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, launch, and analyse experiments for users.
- Profile code, run experiments and analyze data to optimize resource use across many use cases.