Tech Lead and Manager, Wear OS

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Kotlin, Java, C, C++).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing and delivering projects against fixed deadlines, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision or team leadership role with teams of 8 software engineers.
• Experience in developing mobile devices or similar systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 3 years of experience working in an organization.
• Experience with Android or other mobile OS.
• Experience in leading technical teams with cross-site responsibilities in a global organisation.

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.

As a Tech lead, you will help build our new Wear engineering team in Bucharest. You will directly manage a team of 10 people, build, mentor and provide engineering leadership for other teams on the site while collaborating with peers and teams in EMEA and US.

Responsibilities

• Set team priorities that support broader Wear OS goals Communicate technical proposals clearly with local and global Wear OS teams. Align strategy, processes and decision-making across teams.
• Set clear expectations aligned with global goals for each team member, considering their level and role. Meet regularly with team members to discuss performance and development. Provide clear feedback and coaching.
• Develop the mid-term technical goals and roadmap for each local team, together with global Wear OS stakeholders. Evolve roadmaps to meet anticipated requirements. Explain impact of proposals for Wear OS, Users, OEMs and developers.
• Prepare, guide and vet systems designs following Wear OS principles. Write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems and achieve team goals.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure best practices are followed. Consider style guidelines, reliability, testability, efficiency, etc.