Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack, Google Marketing Platform

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in technical leadership and managing engineering teams.
• Experience with highly scalable and reliable distributed systems.
• Experience in people management within a technical environment.
• Ability to contribute to both front-end and back-end development, and willingness to learn full-stack development principles.
• Excellent communication, discussion, and collaboration skills.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Ads Marketing and Sales are a key driver for a healthy and growing Ads business. Over the next 10 years, the Ads business will grow to a rare size and scale amongst all businesses in history. The organization's goal is to to build the appropriate technical solutions/products to help drive Google’s overall business via Ads Marketing and its intersection with Google Sales.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + 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

• Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers; scope for management job ladder is possible in the future, but not required.
• Define, iterate, and communicate team goal, strategy, and roadmap, in partnership with Product Managers and Program Managers.
• Provide technical expertise throughout the product life-cycle including design, implementation, and delivery of scalable services and infrastructure.
• Possess design skills and a passion for writing high-quality, maintainable code.
• Ability to pick up and work through new technologies quickly.