Software Engineer, Play Games Developer Publishing and Tooling

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience with software development in Java programming languages with data structures/algorithms
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience designing and implementing complex distributed backend services, and microservices
• Excellent collaborative skills working with partner engineering teams and cross-functional partners
  
  

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

The Play Games Multiplatform team is focused on expanding Google Play's reach to desktops. We allow users to play a variety of Android and Native games.

The Games Multiplatform team is a large team distributed across 4 sites. We have very ambitious goals to earn the trust of users and developers on a new surface, and looking for an agile and entrepreneurial member driven by the challenges of solving hard problems and having a passion for the intersection of the gaming business and technology.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions in Play backend and storage systems (Boq).
• Collaborate with team members from the Games Multiplatform team in California and Cambridge, as well partner teams (Play Developer Console, Play Monetization, Play Platform) and across functions (PM, UX, TPM) on project prioritization and execution.
• Provide mentorship for more junior engineers on the team.
  
  
  

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