Engineering Manager, Engineering Excellence, Google Home

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
• Experience with software test engineering or test automation framework.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience in Python or Java.
  

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.At Google Home, the team's mission is to create a home that takes care of the people inside it and the world around it. The Google Home Engineering Excellence team drives velocity, quality, and excellence for the software stack by building tooling, scalable test infrastructure, and driving quality insights into the development process. The team pushes the limits of test automation and developer tooling to drive code health, integration, and quality across devices, services, and apps.The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

• Grow and develop individuals, teams, and leads and align that growth with the wider needs of the business.
• Lead teams in general software development, infrastructure development, and test automation tooling.
• Define multi-quarter team delivery roadmaps, managing constraints, and prioritizing competing interests.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration, partnering and engaging with software development peers and leadership.
  

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