Software Engineer III, Full Stack, YouTube Feed Ads

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with full-stack development with back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience in developing accessible technologies.
• Experience with full-stack development with focus on front-end.
• Experience with user understanding and analysis of user metrics and trends.
• Experience with SQL or database querying technologies.
  
  

About the jobGoogle'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.

Feed Ads is responsible for creating and growing business lines for YouTube Advertising. The team works across the Advertiser selection, content and visual representations of the ads, and finding the best ad for the user as they discover new videos on YouTube. We develop an understanding of the user behavior on YouTube Feed surfaces, the advertisers that bring their content to YouTube, and combine them to deliver ads to the right user at the right time.At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Grow the YouTube Feed Ads business by end-to-end experiences that engage the YouTube users by converting time users spend on YouTube Feeds into advertising opportunities, maximizing the advertiser budgets that can be matched to the advertising opportunities, showing ads that drive the business impact, optimizing the value advertisers receive from each of the ads.
• Develop expertise on the technical stack and contributing to the growth of the business area.
• Work cross-functionally with Project Managers, User Experience (UX) Engineers, and other Software Engineers to create and deliver on investments.
  
  
  

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. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .