Engineering Manager - Smart Home Cross-Platform Experiences

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development and building distributed systems at a large-scale.
• 5 years of experience leading teams that build and maintain consumer-facing mobile or hardware products.
• 3 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
• 2 years of experience leading a team of mobile engineers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience with Android and iOS application development.
• Experience managing teams in a newly bootstrapped or rapidly evolving product environment.
• Worked with consumer facing products before and has experience managing consumer-facing products.
• Ability to collaborate with and influence platform teams (e.g., Android Platform) to define new system APIs and unlock unique device capabilities.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

As an Engineering Manager for the Cross-Surface team, your mission is to make the Google Home App exceptional across a various portfolio of devices, including displays, wearables, and TVs. You will be architecting the experiences to scale beyond first-party Google devices to third-party surfaces, expanding Google's smart home ecosystem. You will manage a talented team of engineers and collaborate across Android and iOS platforms. You will grow in a fast-paced environment and be passionate about consumer product surfaces. With a strong background in Android, you will have experience in building scalable frameworks.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of high-performing software engineers focused on delivering core user journeys.
• Lead the implementation of identity features and app pin lock for shared home devices, ensuring secure access and personalized experiences in a communal setting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to integrate Gemini-powered interactions and Google Home App (GHA) requirements across Android, iOS, and Wear operating system.
• Manage team health, roadmap planning, and operational excellence for critical smart home services, balancing innovation with routine maintenance