Software Engineer Manager, Wallet App - Singapore

Product area

Whether it is paying online with Autofill, using tap and pay in stores, or using the Google Pay app, the Payments team at Google is focused on making payments simple, seamless, and secure. In addition to consumer payment technologies, the Payments team also powers the money movement between Google and its consumers and businesses.

Job description

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.

Additional job description

The Wallet App team's goal is to make your phone a better Wallet than your physical wallet. We support Payment Cards, Loyalty, Identity by providing a platform to view, organize, and search for all the useful information in Google Wallet. We work across Google's Product Areas to integrate Wallet with other Google products. We are a team of Android, and back-end engineers dedicated to product excellence, and excited by the opportunities for Wallet growth.

Qualifications

Job responsibilities

• Build new features and a platform for Google Wallet on Android for use across Google and in the real world.
• Work with Product Managers (PMs) and User Experience (UX) on building new features and enhancing existing features within the Google Wallet Android app, as well as help new integrators into Wallet make sure their data fits into the platform.
• Accommodate Wallet's growing scale and take advantage of the newest Android features, as well as help maintain and evolve the Wallet app's integration with Google Play Services and the underlying Android platform.
• Set the technical direction for the organization by building common abstractions, setting best practices, and working with the client infrastructure team to ensure growth.
• Partner and collaborate with existing United States (US)-based Android and Wearable app teams.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with full stack development, with back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 3 years of experience in Android application development including Java or Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, and experience with Application programming interface (API) development and design.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience with working in a matrixed organization.
• Experience with launching and maintaining Android applications.
• Experience with testing methodologies and best practices for mobile applications.