Senior Android Software Engineer, Android System UI

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. You'll engineer features at the heart of Android UI and take ownership of improving the underlying Android Framework components that power experiences like widgets and shortcuts. This involves working within framework internals, refining APIs for robustness and performance, and considering the technical needs of developers across the ecosystem who rely on these foundations. Your work will also require working closely with product, design, and research, but also technical engagement with numerous partner teams and developer relations to define the developer experience for applications building widgets and shortcuts.

• Collaborate across key cross-functional areas to scope, design, and implement improvements to SystemUI.
• Work across several engineering teams to help them integrate and understand the core API surfaces and improve their implementations.
• Work with our developer relations and product team to improve our developer experience to enable developers to build higher quality widgets and surface higher quality shortcuts.
• Comply with all company health and safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in Java, C++, Kotlin or equivalent programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 1 year of experience with Android application or operating systems development.

• Stock options
• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.