Software Engineer, Mobile (Android), Search

About this role

### Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with Android application development.
• Experience in Kotlin programming language.

### Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience with performance optimization, mobile image management (e.g., Glide, Bitmaps).
• Experience building performant, visually-forward Android user interfaces using Jetpack Compose and modern architecture patterns.
• Knowledge of Android SDK.

## 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.

As a Software Engineer on this team, you will focus on building the native Android experience for Google Image Search Results Pages and the Image Viewer within the Android Google App. You will lead technical projects end-to-end from design documents to launch, while leadings performanc...