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Software Engineering Manager II, Google Messages

Software Engineering Manager II, Google Messages

1 Hour ago • 8-13 Years • Product Management

About the job

Summary

The Software Engineering Manager II at Google Messages is responsible for managing a team of engineers, overseeing projects, and contributing to product strategy. This role requires strong technical expertise in software development (Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript) and experience in technical leadership and people management. Responsibilities include setting team priorities, aligning strategies across teams, setting clear expectations for individuals, providing feedback and coaching, developing technical roadmaps, designing and vetting systems, writing code, reviewing code developed by others, and ensuring best practices. The role involves managing engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget, and overseeing large-scale project deployments internationally. The team focuses on delivering communications products for Android and creating a thriving Business Communication ecosystem, providing low-latency, reliable, scalable privacy-compliant analytics.

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Must have:

8+ years software development experience
5+ years technical leadership
3+ years people management
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Project oversight & execution
Code review & feedback
Roadmap development
Team priority setting

Good to have:

Master's/PhD in CS
Experience in changing organizations
Distributed data processing
SQL Pipelines
Capacity management

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Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
3 years of experience working in a changing organization.
Experience in distributed data processing.
Experience with SQL Pipelines.
Experience with capacity management.

About the job

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

Android and Business Communications focuses on delivering communications products for Android and creating a thriving Business Communication ecosystem. The team provides low latency, reliable, and scalable privacy compliant analytics platform and solutions for decision making within Android and Business Communication and its related ecosystem.

The Platforms and Ecosystems product area encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications). The products provide enterprises, and ultimately end users, the ability to utilize and manage their services at scale. We build innovative and compelling software products—from apps to TVs, from laptops to phones—that have an impact on people’s lives across the world.

Responsibilities

Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals, align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals, and meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development, and provide feedback and coaching.
Develop the mid-term technical idea and roadmap within the scope of the team, and evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
Design, guide, and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

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