Google's Chrome Mac team is responsible for the overall quality of Chrome on macOS. This role will involve engineering work to improve performance and platform integration, fix Mac-specific issues, and adapt cross-platform features and toolkits to work well on the Mac. The team also handles new feature development and supports feature development driven by other groups within Chrome on their Mac design and implementation work.
Requirements
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 3 years of experience building developer tools (e.g., compilers, automated releases, code design and testing, test automation frameworks).
- Experience developing a client application for macOS, Windows, Linux, or iOS.
- Experience with platform integration on macOS.
- Experience on open-source projects.
- Experience with C++ or Objective-C.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to platform integration, including tying in with new and existing OS features, interfacing with OS-specific services, and matching general “fit and finish” expectations for consistency on the platform.
- Improve Chrome’s speed and responsiveness, and reduce power consumption.
- Improve the Mac integration with Chrome’s “Views” cross-platform toolkit layer.
- Drive user retention and growth through targeted changes that improve the user experience.
- Participate in an open-source community, where bug reports and code contributions may come from people external to Google.
- engineering work to improve performance and platform integration
- fix Mac-specific issues, and to adapt cross-platform features and toolkits to work well on the Mac
Other
- Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another.
- 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.
- 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.
