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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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