Software Engineer Manager II, Front End, AI Developer Tools Product Integrations
Company: Google
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $207,000 - $300,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-08-21
About this role
### Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 3 years of experience with front-end and user interface development.
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
- 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
### Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Experience shipping developer tools or IDE extensions (e.g., VS Code) with a strong intuition for developer experience and productivity workflows.
- Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into interactive client applications, including streaming tokens and context management.
- Experience managing hybrid engineering teams, including full-time SWEs and vendor partners.
## 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 mul...