Application Engineer Lead - Application Engineering - Development & Maintenance

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At Google Operations Center we help Google users and customers solve problems and achieve their goals—all while enjoying a culture focused on improving continuously and being better together. We work hard, we play hard, and we want you to join us!

As the Application Engineer Lead in the Google Operations Center, you'll lead a talented team of front-end and full-stack developers responsible for building and maintaining the critical tools and applications that power Google's internal operations. You'll play a key role in setting technical direction, fostering collaboration, and mentoring engineers, while ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions that meet the evolving needs of our users. If you're a strong leader with a passion for developing people and a deep understanding of software development best practices, we encourage you to apply!

Position Responsibilities:

• Guide and mentor the team: Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and mentorship to both frontend and full-stack developers, fostering their growth and ensuring code quality.

• Drive project delivery: Oversee project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring projects stay on track, meet deadlines, and adhere to quality standards.
  Collaborate effectively: Work closely with product managers, stakeholders, and other teams to define project scope, gather requirements, and ensure successful project outcomes.

• Champion technical excellence: Promote best practices in software development, architecture, and coding, staying current with industry trends and ensuring the team's technical skills remain sharp.

• Build a high-performing team: Cultivate a collaborative and supportive team environment, where individuals feel valued, motivated, and empowered to contribute their best work.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10y+ solid experience as a Full Stack Developer with minimum 5+ years of people management experience

• Expert with front-end web development programming in Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 or TypeScript & framework such as Angular.

• Expert with building web applications based on at least one of these technologies: Object-Oriented Programming language such as JAVA or Python with hands on experience on REST & SOAP APIs

• Strong hands on with Databases (SQL and NoSQL) and tuning queries for performance.

• Experience with design of security, monitoring and debugging of enterprise level development to perform code reviews

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment process, ensuring rapid and reliable releases

• A solid understanding of System Design principles.

• Basic understanding of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its managed services, specifically Cloud Spanner and Pub/Sub for messaging.

• Strong experience leading code reviews and ensuring best practices across security, monitoring, and debugging for enterprise-level development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years+  experience using GIT based continuous  integration & delivery

• Experience in Middleware development/design (remote procedure call based, publish subscribe based, etc…)

• Experience with multiple full lifecycles from Design & Architecture through Development, Testing, Deployment and Debugging production issues

• Strong understanding of the AI toolkits similar to ADK, Anti Gravity, Vertex AI Agent Engine etc.

• Demonstrated ability to interact professionally with all levels of global stakeholders, managing expectations during volatile solution transition or stabilization phases. 

• Experience acting as a technical delivery lead within an Agile/Scrum framework, efficiently balancing strategic roadmaps with production support escalations.

Benefits

• We support you with competitive wages and with comprehensive health care including medical, dental and vision coverage

• We support your family with gender-neutral baby bonding leave, 26 week birth-parent maternity leave, and generous life, accident and disability insurance minimums

• Employees who work onsite can enjoy free meals and snacks, and fun onsite experiences

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Thanks for your interest in this opportunity! Our recruitment team will contact you if your profile is a good fit for the role. If you don't hear from us within 2-3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful at this time. We value your patience throughout this time. For any questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].