Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.

• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

• 3 years of experience with Android Application development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.

• 3 years of experience with performance systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.

• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.

• Experience developing accessible technologies.

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.

In this role, you will work across the stack to build APIs that fulfill the needs of app developers for Wear OS. You will help prioritize, design, and implement APIs. You will also collaborate with different teams across the organization and across different subsystems within Wear OS.

The Platforms and Ecosystems product area encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications). The products provide enterprises, and ultimately end users, the ability to utilize and manage their services at scale. We build innovative and compelling software products—from apps to TVs, from laptops to phones—that have an impact on people’s lives across the world.

• Write product or system Android development code to build WearOS Media services, developer APIs, and Apps.

• Create APIs and services for specific app verticals to improve the product experience and reduce the cost to developers.

• Work with Android Developer Relations and first-party teams to identify opportunities to improve the developer story.

• Build key APIs and infrastructure to enable app developers.

• Contribute across the Wear OS stack, from developer new APIs, to building UIs, to framework enhancements.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.