Senior Software Engineer, Android System UI

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in software development.
• Experience with Android or iOS application development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience.
• 3 years of experience in mobile device application development.
• Experience in C/C++ or Java.

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.

As a Software Engineer on the System UI team, you will have the opportunity to engineer the core experiences and underlying systems of the Android OS. You will address technical tests in areas like application launching, navigation, and personalization features, and the implementation of components like wallpapers, notifications, widgets and shortcuts. Your work will focus on delivering a fluid, intelligent, and adaptable UI, emphasizing technical quality, performance, and the overall user experience. This involves developing features directly in core system applications, contributing to the Android Framework components that support them, and improving the developer experiences for applications developers that build for Android.

Android is Google's open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across key cross-functional areas to scope, design, and implement improvements to SystemUI.
• Work across several engineering teams to help them integrate and understand the core API surfaces and improve their implementations.
• Work with our developer relations and product team to improve our developer experience to enable developers to build widgets and surface shortcuts. Deliver on the System UI team, responsible for many of the core UI surfaces that form Android.
• Work with product, design, and research, also engage with numerous partner teams and developer relations to define the developer experience for applications building widgets and shortcuts.
• Comply with all company health and safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements.

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 .