Minimum qualifications:

• Node
• React.js
• GraphQL
•  Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with C++, data analysis, and personalization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a technical related field.
• 8 years of professional experience in engineering with a demonstrated track record of technical innovation with large-scale user facing products.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, and/or cross-business projects.
• Ability to think in a strategic manner to develop innovative product solutions.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively to create a shared sense of vision or purpose across team and cross-functionality.

About the job

Google'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.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Google Play Recommendations team, you will be a technical lead for the Play Apps Personalization Experience. You will work closely with tech leads of Play Games Personalization Experience, and core foundational personalization tech lead managers.

Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Provide the technical vision and strategy for recommendation for the Play Apps Experience, balancing short and long-term technology investments.
• Develop product vision for Play Apps related recommendation products (i.e. homepages, cross-sells, etc.) with Product Management (PM), User Experience (UX), and other cross-functional partners.
• Drive and coordinate collaboration with teams in Play and across Google (e.g., Research teams in ML and recommendation areas).
• Review technical design from the team and guide technical discussions.
• Review experiments and guide project directions.