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Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Google Photos

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8 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$174k - $252k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical direction and lead backend business-generation projects such as server-driven promotions.
  • Scope complex technical problems, maintain backend system health, and guide the backend engineering team.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners and Android and iOS engineering leads to define requirements and scalable solutions.
  • Build features supporting Google Photos’ storage business-generation mission while maintaining consistent user experiences across platforms.
  • Advocate engineering excellence and adoption of developer AI tools across the broader team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
  • At least 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products and 1 year of software design and architecture experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or working with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Preferred: 3 years of experience programming in Java or Kotlin.
  • Preferred: 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Proficiency in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering.

Benefits

  • 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits are offered in addition to base pay.

Tech Stack

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BackendGrowth Engineering
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