Staff Software Engineer, Front End, Conversational Agents and Dialogflow

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience in testing and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience with front-end and user interface development.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role with leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience with working in a matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience with Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), AI model integration or conversational AI platforms.
• Experience with Google-specific platforms such as the One Platform Application Programming Interface (API).

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.

The team is transforming how enterprises connect with customers through the power of AI.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Drive the front-end technical strategy, architecture, and execution for ambiguous projects on the conversational AI platform. Define the technical roadmap for solutions.
• Act as the lead engineering partner for Product Management and User Experience (UX). Go beyond understanding requirements to define product strategy, refine ambiguous customer needs into technical designs, and drive consensus across teams.
• Iterate on new platform capabilities to meet immediate customer needs. Balance the speed with technical health, advocating best practices to ensure solutions are maintainable, testable, and easy to refactor.
• Lead and multiply the impact of the engineering team while acting as an executive technical leader, guiding a key technical domain, or managing a team.
• Leverage user empathy to guide product direction, respond to customer feedback, and build seamless experiences for the developers.