Engineering Manager in Sydney

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Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
• Preferred qualifications: 5 years of experience with mobile app development (iOS or Android).
• Experience building full stack solutions, platforms or infrastructure.

About the job:

Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager, you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day.

The Google Photos Growth team owns driving growth and activating new users for Google Photos - the team is running many experiments to improve users' first moments with Photos and fuel our core growth metrics. As part of a cross-platform Android and iOS team, you would lead the team in shipping critical features for Growth, while working closely with cross-functional peers as well as global engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with cross-functional peers such as Product and UX to collaboratively define the goal and strategy for growing and activating new users on Google Photos.
• Define and influence technical direction and long-term strategy in conjunction with peer leads, helping the team make balanced tradeoffs, and prioritize engineering excellence investments in a systemic way.
• Manage an engineering team across Android and iOS including formal career management and coaching to help the team grow in directions that are exciting to them.

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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.