Developer Relations Engineer, Android TV

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in Android development.
• Experience with Kotlin language.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 4 years of experience in building Android apps.
• Experience in contributing to an open source project.
• Experience in User Interface (UI) development and design.
• Knowledge of the Android development community by social media, blog posts, meetup talks, conference talks, etc.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
  
  

About the jobPassionate people are everywhere at Google. In Developer Relations, we get excited to collaborate and connect with the communities that love technology as much as we do. Part community manager and part developer advocate, Developer Relations Engineers collaborate with developers at conferences and online, and advocate for developers interests internally at Google. Not afraid to be hands-on, you write sample code and client libraries as well as participate in developer forums and support queues to troubleshoot and debug coding problems developers encounter. Internally, you work with product engineering teams to improve our products by conveying feedback from developers, reviewing API designs and testing new features. Chrome, Android, App Engine, HTML5 as well as our core Google Apps and Ads APIs are just some of the platforms you promote and support.

With your technical expertise, you drive strategy around fostering a community of developers who work with Google technologies. An ardent advocate for these developers, you represent their voice internally to our Product Managers and serve as their Google support in application development and technology implementation. Android is Google’s 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

• Work with developers and internal stakeholders at Google to identify opportunities and bring changes in tooling, libraries, and guidance that will increase productivity when building, debugging, testing, and releasing Android apps.
• Understand how the community is using Compose and other Jetpack libraries and what bottlenecks are slowing down developer's work. Elevate these issues to stakeholders and drive resolution on them.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to provide feedback on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)/libraries, influence the product roadmap, and craft the narrative for how developers can increase their return on investment when building for Android.
• Create developer resources including blog posts, sample code, codelabs, and guidance on how developers can leverage Jetpack libraries to build quality apps efficiently.
  
  
  

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