Engineering Manager, Google Photos Growth
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 14, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.
About the job
Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. 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. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.
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. We are looking for a passionate Engineering Manager to help us build a new team in Google Photos Growth and shape the future of the team.
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
- 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.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
- 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.