Engineering Manager, Android Studio

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in mobile development.
• Experience in Java or Kotlin
• Interest in working on tooling, IDEs and Android UIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to extend Android Studio, an open source Integrated Development Environment(IDE) based on IntelliJ, written in Java and Kotlin, to make tooling support across different form factors like Extended Reality, WearOS, Auto, TV or Large Screens event better.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams like Product Management/UX to drive solutions.
• Support technical direction, prioritize projects. Apply Google's best engineering practices to guide the team to improve and iterate on the existing codebase, making it more stable and performant.
• Rethink how Android Studio can leverage AI to support developers in their day to day development workflow, specially when building applications that work across more than one form factor.

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.

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.