Google is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to provide technical leadership to major projects, manage a team of engineers, optimize code, contribute to product strategy, and develop their team. The role involves managing engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget, and overseeing the deployment of large-scale projects.
Requirements
- 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.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects.
- Experience in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design.
Responsibilities
- Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
- Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Develop the mid-term technical goal and roadmap within the scope of the teams.
- Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
- Optimize your own code and make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs.
- Manage engineers across multiple teams and locations.
- Oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.
Other
- 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
- Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals.
- Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
- Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals.
- Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
