Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
- 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience building software modules for content management and publishing systems.
- Experience building machine models.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
About The Job
Google Store and Google Fi Wireless are part of Google's expanding portfolio of hardware products and associated services. Our Google Store site is the authoritative place to learn about Google's hardware products and buy them. Our product range includes Pixel phones, Pixel Watch, Fitbit, Google Nest, TV Streamer, and accessories.
Our team of 150+ engineers develops and operates a sophisticated, scalable platform that underlies Google Store.
Google Store - Content Tech team's mission:
Design and build AI-infused Content Authoring and Publishing infrastructure that powers the Google Store. We utilize ML models and intelligent automation to eliminate operational friction, delivering a frictionless, high-velocity environment where marketing and operations partners can deploy merchandising assets with precision and speed.
As a Software Engineer-Lead, Individual Contributor Backend, you will own the design and development of features in Content Management System by infusing intelligent automation and Generative AI into our core infrastructure. You will work within a technical ecosystem—spanning Translation Engines, Digital Asset Management, Global Resource Registry —to deliver a smarter, enterprise-grade authoring and publishing experience. You will need to have experience in E-commerce or Content delivery systems experience.
We bridge the gap between the distributed systems and modern front-end architecture. You will leverage Google's powerhouse infrastructure to ensure scalability and low latency, while crafting intuitive UI's in Angular. You will also be at the forefront of AI, integrating Gemini and specialised ML models to power predictive workflows and intelligent content management.
Google Store is our omnichannel, global retailer, leveraging the best of Google to help customers experience our award-winning devices and services. Our team is responsible for a vast portfolio that supports the entire customer journey, from product discovery to upgrading their next device. This portfolio includes the My Pixel app distributed with every Pixel phone, the Google Store global eCommerce platform, our leading edge retail point-of-sale system, and AI-driven algorithms for customer lifecycle management.
The Store team applies Google's AI to solve complex, real-world problems across our growing global footprint of online and brick-and-mortar storefronts. This ranges from AI-enhanced site operations to agentic AI shopping assistance, ensuring a seamless and intelligent experience at every touchpoint.
The Store team is committed to providing team members with the opportunity to build their applied AI skillset, so that we may ultimately help our customers connect with the best of Google.
Responsibilities
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
- Designing and shipping end-to-end features backed by rigorous unit testing and automated integration testing. Operational efficiency improvement backed by data and metrics.
- Pioneering the deep integration of AI/ML models to optimize the platform and redefine the content experience. Solving sophisticated technical puzzles to ensure our systems maintain performance and ultra-low latency on a global scale.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
