Front-End Software Engineer, Google Photos

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Applicants to this role must have work authorization in Australia as this role is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting. 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms in either an academic or industry setting.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.2 years of experience building web software products.
• Experience in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

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.

The Sydney team is responsible for all of the strategic features across the Google Photos product, and so we’re growing our team accordingly. We focus on improving how people backup, organize, access and share their photos on the Web, collaborating with other Photos teams along the way. The Web matters for us because that's where users often come to organize and curate their libraries.

It's also often how new users are introduced to Google Photos and we want to make a great first impression.

In this role, you will help us both deliver new features as well as identify, design and implement architectural improvements to Google Photos.

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide among available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

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