Senior Software Engineer, Google Play

About the role

Google is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Google Play team, based in Nairobi (Westlands). The role covers writing and testing code, reviewing work from others, taking part in design decisions and troubleshooting product and system issues.

Key responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead, design reviews with peers and stakeholders to choose among available technologies.
• Review code written by other developers and give feedback on style guidelines, code accuracy, testability and efficiency.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt it to product updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug, track and resolve them by analysing their causes and their impact on hardware, network or service operations and quality.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining or launching software products, and 1 year in software design and architecture.
• Experience with server-side programming.
• Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, 5 years with data structures and algorithms, 1 year in a technical leadership role, and experience building accessible technologies.