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Senior Software Engineer, Android Google App

Massachusetts, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeSenior$174,000–$252,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on the Android Google Search App (AGSA), a critical application used by billions of users. This role involves designing and implementing features, improving architecture, and testing across various environments. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams and leverage AI tools to optimize workflows. The position offers the opportunity to impact a globally relied-upon product and solve complex engineering challenges at massive scale. This is a full-time position with a competitive salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.

### 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 testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with large-scale application design and architecture.
  • 3 years of experience with Android application development.

### Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in Kotlin, integration testing, and experiment design.

## 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.

Help make Search awesome for our Android users! Our team develops the Android Google Search App (AGSA), one of the most used Android apps with more than xB DAU and over a third of all Google Search traffic. AGSA is the platform for Search, Gemini, Discover, Circle to Search, Lens, and more.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

## Responsibilities

  • Work in collaboration with cross-functional partners to design and improve front-end experiences for the Android Search App.
  • Implement features end-to-end, evolving existing architecture to improve maintainability.
  • Test features across various environments such as teamfood, dogfood, and production.
  • Manage individual project deliverables and priorities.
  • Leverage AI development tools to optimize daily workflows.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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