Senior Software Engineer, Google Pay
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 15, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.
About the job
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. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
Google Pay now serves over 250 million users in India. The Singapore-based team is the engine behind many of the India Consumer app’s core features. We own the end-to-end reliability and growth for critical user surfaces, driving both engagement and multi-million dollar business streams.
In this role, you will make a direct, large-scale impact. You will take full ownership of key product areas, building the next generation of features to scale the massive user base even further.
Whether it is paying online with Autofill, using tap and pay in stores, or using the Google Pay app, the Payments team at Google is focused on making payments simple, seamless, and secure. In addition to consumer payment technologies, the Payments team also powers the money movement between Google and its consumers and businesses.
Responsibilities
- Write and test product or system development code.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 2 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end (such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases), and mobile experience (such as Android, iOS or Flutter Development).
Preferred qualifications:
- 7 years of experience with software development.
- Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance engineering productivity.
- Experience building systems that scale to millions of users globally.
- Experience working on app security.