Senior Software Engineer, Shopping Metrics

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with SQL, Go, C++, and Dreampipe.

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.

People shop on Google more than a billion times a day - and the Commerce team is responsible for building the experiences that serve these users. The mission for Google Commerce is to be an essential part of the shopping journey for consumers - from inspiration to to a simple and secure checkout experience - and the best place for retailers/merchants to connect with consumers. We support and partner with the commerce ecosystem, from large retailers to small local merchants, to give them the tools, technology and scale to thrive in today's digital world.

Responsibilities

• Clarify requirements with clients and Product Managers, including understanding the client needs and sometimes proposing alternative requirements which fit their business needs better than the one they asked for.
• Scope work items within a larger project and deliver them together with more engineers from the team.
• Manage client expectations and timelines, including proposing short/long-term solutions with clear tradeoffs and plans for managing/removing tech debt.
• Write high quality designs and code that serve as examples for more engineers.
• Work together with the Metrics Infrastructure team to inform prioritization of infrastructure features that could increase velocity of data engineering work.