Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack, Learning Platforms

Google • Chicago, IL

5h

About The Position

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.

Global Business and Operations (GBO) Engineering is an embedded team within
Google’s Ad sales. We build consumer-grade internal tooling for sales, marketing
and service teams.

Our team of engineers, designers and product managers is responsible for
internal platforms that support sales and marketing teams to run events, deliver
professional services, manage commercial agreements with ads customers and
transform our go-to-market readiness with learning and development technology.

In this role, you will be responsible for building, designing, and deploying
modern web applications. You will leverage your technical skills to architect
scalable solutions, address dependencies, and shape the team's technical
strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in Kotlin or Java.
• 5 years of experience programming in TypeScript or JavaScript.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
• 1 year of experience with service architecture, domain-driven design, and the development of distributed services.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience in the end-to-end design, scaling, and performance tuning of AI-integrated web applications within dynamic environments.
• Experience with ML model fine-tuning, evaluation, and performance optimization for user-facing systems.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to understand issues and translate them into effective solution designs, partnering with Product, UX, and other engineering teams.
• Drive AI efforts including Gemini integrations that are both scalable and high-performant.
• Develop, test, and monitor scalable, and reliable web solutions that meet business needs.
• Write and review technical documents (e.g., product, technical design, developer documentation) and code in TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, or SQL.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level