Staff Software Engineer, Google Local Services Ads Platform

Job description

info_outline 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. Local Services by Google (GLS) is a strategic vertical effort in Ads and Commerce.

Our primary mission is to create great experiences for users who need local services, enabling them to find and connect with trusted services providers (advertisers). A key ingredient is acquiring and retaining high quality advertisers (providers) that can meet the ever growing services users demand. We want to take a multi-faceted approach in setting up an efficient and sustainable acquisition pipeline, meeting advertisers in places they already go to buy ads.

We want to invest into offering exceptional functionality and features that will make advertiser find value in us, and thus be retained on the platform.