Senior Android Software Engineer, Android Mainline

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in Java, C++, Kotlin or equivalent programming languages and with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 1 year of experience with Android application or operating systems development.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 3 years of experience with Android application or operating systems development.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  
  

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.

The Mainline Modularization team works on modularizing components of the Android Operating System (OS). We are primarily responsible for helping module teams safely build and release their modules to Android devices every month.Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities

• Build core platform APIs and services used to implement the Android Core Operating system.
• Support and release services via Google Mobile Services (GMS) that are critical to the Android Core Operating system.
• Build tests as well as in-field metrics to ensure the quality of these platform services.
• Work with our developer relations and product team to improve our developer experience to enable developers to build higher quality widgets and surface higher quality shortcuts.
• Comply with all company health and safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
  
  
  

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