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October 8, 2025

Team Lead, Software Engineering, iOS, Photos

Senior • On-site

$197,000 - $291,000/yr

Mountain View, CA , +1


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development with Swift, Swift UI and Concurrency.
  • 7 years of experience building consumer applications with specialization in iOS development and iOS Apps.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership or management role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • Experience with on device machine learning techniques and optimizing apps for iOS.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 3 years of experience working in an organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
  • Experience in building photo and video editing/consumption systems.

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.

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

  • Help us introduce new, creative features: balancing scrappy prototyping and investment in the platforms and components that help us sustainably adopt the research models faster than ever before.
  • Leverage your iOS expertise to steer short and long term client investments, setting the road map for adjacent iOS engineers working to grow our funnel inside and outside the editor.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Manager (PM), User Experience (UX), and Program Managers (PgMs) to bring editing features to a wide range of product surfaces. Photos excels through partnerships and you will set up to collaborate both within the organization and cross-product area with research.
  • Advocate for scalability, testing, system health, and overall reliability of our app to serve over users.
  • Help us come up with new, creative features and help us prove those ideas through full-stack prototypes.