Engineering Tech Lead, Google Photos

About the role

The Memories team is dedicated to transforming how the world reminisces by building a next-generation reminiscing experience that serves as the heartbeat of the Photos App. As we enter the Gemini era, we are aligning our engineering efforts to innovate deeper and faster, ensuring that user expectations for reliving life stories are not just met, but exceeded.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with product, UX, analytics, and privacy teams to refine requirements, define success metrics, and ensure responsible feature launches.
• Be well versed in backend and AI technology with great attention to detail, many of the feature launches require deep understanding of the system, be willing to dig deep and provide technical guidance.
• Execute with extreme urgency and ownership, working in an extremely fast-moving environment, it's critical to have a startup mindset to take risks, do quick prototyping, and be resilient to march forward despite challenges.
• Nurture a great team culture, the team is the foundation to deliver our ambitious goals, to ensure that we are executing in a sustainable manner with a nurturing team culture (i.e. helping each other).

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Preferred qualifications:
• Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM).
• Experience in launching ML enabled product features, particularly to public users.
• Ability to work in a fast-moving, collaborative, creative environment, great communication skills.
• Ability to work on innovations and forefront of technology, and the challenges and unknowns that come with it.

Pay

$207,000 - $301,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Full-time

Benefits

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