**Minimum qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in Java or Kotlin 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.
**Preferred qualifications**:
- Experience with developing infrastructure or making contributions to a code base.
- Experience managing a team or aptitude for managing people.
- Experience with Spring Boot.
- Passion for API design and for building infrastructure.
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.
Our team works on the infrastructure for building Java and Kotlin services that seamlessly integrate with Google's unique infrastructure. This infrastructure is used by thousands of Google developers to build products serving billions of users worldwide.
As a Tech Lead Manager, you will lead and manage this growing team driving technical excellence and empowering Google to build amazing products.
If you're a Java/Kotlin expert who relishes in leading intricate problems that require both a broad understanding of Google's infrastructure and a high proficiency with the language's finer points, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact. You'll also gain invaluable experience in API design, robust implementation, and service-oriented system architecture.
**Responsibilities**:
- Lead and manage a team of engineers.
- Design, implement, extend, and support the infrastructure for building services using Kotlin and Java.
- Collaborate with teammates across the organization to deliver infrastructure improvements.
- Triage system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations and quality.
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 alsoGoogle's EEO Policy andEEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form.