Staff Software Engineer, Android Growth Systems

Salary: £160,000 - 200,000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience with Android application development.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Masters degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
• Experience with modern Android development: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Material Design.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.

Technologies:

• Android
• Kotlin
• Mobile
• Security
• Web
• UX UI Design

More:

We develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products operate at massive scale and extend far beyond web search, spanning areas such as information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design, and mobile. In this role, you will work on a specific project critical to our needs, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as our fast-paced business grows and evolves. We are building Google Search to help people find information in any way and anywhere, solving complex engineering challenges while expanding our infrastructure and maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience relied on by people around the world. Joining the Search team gives you the opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

last updated 37 week of 2026