Engineering Manager, Google Photos Growth

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search.

About Google

Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

The Google Photos Growth team owns driving growth and activating new users for Google Photos - the team is running many experiments to improve users' first moments with Photos and fuel our core growth metrics.

As part of a cross platform Android and iOS team, you would lead the team in shipping critical features for Growth, while working closely with cross-functional peers as well as global engineering teams. We are looking for a passionate Engineering Manager to help us build a new team in Google Photos Growth and shape the future of the team.

Responsibilities

• Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers.
• You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs.
• As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.
• Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day.
• Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.
• Partner closely with cross-functional peers such as Product and UX to collaboratively define the goal and strategy for growing and activating new users on Google Photos.
• Define and influence technical direction and long-term strategy in conjunction with peer leads, helping the team make balanced tradeoffs, and prioritize engineering excellence investments in a systemic way.
• Manage an engineering team across Android and iOS including formal career management and coaching to help the team grow in directions that are exciting to them.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred

• 5 years of experience with mobile app development (iOS or Android).
• Experience building full stack solutions, platforms or infrastructure.