Google's software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information. Products need to handle information at massive scale and extend beyond web search. The System UI team engineers the core experiences and underlying systems of the Android OS, focusing on delivering a fluid, intelligent, and adaptable UI with emphasis on technical quality, performance, and user experience.
Requirements
- Experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
- 2 years of experience with software development in Java.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
- Experience with Android application development.
Responsibilities
- Handle technical tests in areas like seamless application launching, navigation, and personalization features, and the implementation of components like wallpapers, notifications, widgets and shortcuts.
- Develop feature in core system applications, contributing to the Android Framework components that support them, and improve the developer experiences for applications developers that build for Android.
- Work on the Android Launcher, the home screen and main entry point for users interacting with their phones.
- Collaborate across key cross-functional areas to scope, design, and implement improvements to SystemUI and Android's Launcher.
- Work across several engineering teams to help them integrate and understand the core API surfaces and improve their implementations.
- Work with our developer relations and product team to improve our developer experiences for first and third party apps.
- Advise external partners on integrating new Launcher features into their products.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Comply with all company health and safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
- 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.
