Engineering Manager, Video Games on Search

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).

• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

• Experience with video games.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Interest in measuring and understanding user behavior.
• Excited about user-facing products.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer (SWE) goes way beyond just Search. SWE 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 SWE Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. SWE 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. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

The Search Video Games team is dedicated to bringing Google Search users more helpful answers on queries about video games. In this role, you will bring an interest in user-facing products and games to lead a team of frontend and backend engineers building new experiences to delight users.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers building user-facing Video Games experiences on Search.
• Collaborate with other Search groups, including Web Answers, Knowledge Engine, and Search Platforms to develop capabilities for video games.
• Partner with data and quality engineering teams to design the industry architecture and develop an innovative and reliable experience together.
• Collaborate with other product and platform teams across Search to develop technical capabilities for search features.

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