Senior Software Engineer Team Lead, iOS, Google Discover

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.

Google Discover is on a mission to empower users to explore their passions by curating various perspectives and information. The Discover Surfaces organization is responsible for providing a highly reliable, robust, and easy-to-use Discover experience for users across various mobile and desktop clients. This role involves owning a great, user-centric Discover Client on iOS, and executing the strategic initiatives related to iOS client site to deliver user experience.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Be a technical lead for a group of iOS developers dedicated to making the Discover iOS client reliable, fast, efficient, and scalable, ensuring a user experience that supports our organizational initiatives.
• Leverage your deep iOS expertise to steer both short and long-term client investments.
• Help set the roadmap for adjacent engineers, and partner with our Product Management (PM) and User Experience (UX) teams to ensure engineering efforts align with product strategy.
• Design and build new features, drive projects that span from prototyping, to design, to productionization and launch.