Web Solutions Engineer, Google Technical Services, Tools Development and Automation

About the job

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

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Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and improve elegant, scalable, and modern full-stack web applications using standard and Google-specific software development tools. Ensure reliable backends, build pipelines to aggregate data from multiple sources, implement responsive and UX-rich front-ends, or enhance performance of existing tools and services.
• Analyze problems and develop solutions, while identifying dependencies and resolving issues to drive implementation.
• Make technical contributions, including writing and reviewing design documents, tests, and code (e.g., JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, SQL).
• Provide subject-matter expertise and utilize comprehensive knowledge of Google's relevant technologies, principles, practices, and coding standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional users and stakeholders to identify pain points and devise innovative technical solutions.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience troubleshooting and advocating for customers' needs, and triaging technical issues (e.g., hardware, software, application, operational, process).
• Experience reading code in a general purpose coding language (e.g., Java, C, C++, Python, Shell, Go, JavaScript) or in system design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to provide effective technical solutions to business challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible/adaptable in exercising judgment in a dynamic environment and to prioritize and manage tasks efficiently.
• Demonstrated passion for engineering and experience with unit testing, agile project development, and bug and change management systems.