Staff Mobile Engineer, iOS, YouTube Create

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience in technical leadership, leading project teams, and setting technical direction.
• Experience with crash reporting and analysis tools (e.g., Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry) and proactive monitoring.
• Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and asynchronous programming.
• Understanding of software development life-cycle, agile methodologies, and architectural patterns.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, with a focus on performance and scalability.
  
  

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. 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

• Provide technical leadership, establish, and advocate for best engineering practices across teams at YouTube.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers and lead the design of major software components, systems, and features.
• Launch user-facing features that revolutionize video creation (Long/Short-form) through the YouTube (YT) Create app on iOS.
• Build a high-performance mobile app for video editing, working closely with partner teams to integrate media processing, effects production, and client infrastructure.
• Develop in a combination of Flutter (for UX and data layers) and native iOS (for media and backend integrations), while leveraging relationships across Shorts, Music, and the ACE organization.
  
  
  

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