Engineering Manager, Classroom Mobile Platform Team

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degreeor equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with full stack development, across the back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building and maintaining effective, collaborative engineering teams.
• Experience with one of our core languages: Dart, Java, Swift.
• Experience working with and learning from a cross-functional team of collaborators including engineers, product managers, and user experience designers and researchers.
• Knowledge of educational technology, at either the elementary or higher education levels.

About the job

Google plays an important role in education around the world – with hundreds of millions of students using Classroom, Workspace, Chromebooks, YouTube, and more. At Google Classroom, we have an incredible opportunity to transform teaching and learning at scale for our 150M+ customers!

Google Classroom is a learning platform that streamlines assignments, boosts collaboration, and fosters seamless communication between instructors and students. Classroom aims to be the simplest and most efficient way for any educator to manage, measure, and drive student learning outcomes.

The Classroom Mobile Platform team's mission is to build a reliable, accessible, and well-crafted experience that empowers users from any background to learn and teach on mobile.

Google Classroom's mobile applications are built primarily in Flutter and Dart. The Mobile Platform team is dedicated to making every aspect of this development process easy, fast, and effective. We collaborate directly with feature teams to understand their needs, investing in initiatives that align with our broader organizational priorities. Today, we are at an exciting inflection point where GenAI is poised to drive a step-change in teaching and learning—and our platform is helping make that happen.

As the team's manager, you will be working with both engineering and cross-functional partners to lead and guide key investments and infrastructure projects. You will guide and coach a talented team of mobile engineers, ensuring that the team is working on the most important priorities while encouraging creativity and innovation in these exciting and dynamic times.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Manage and coach the Classroom Mobile Platform engineering team of about 8.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team as they design and build new software systems.
• Partner with technical leads and managers from partner engineering teams to ensure that we are working effectively together to land key topline metrics and organization goals.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners in user research, design, and product to understand educators’ needs, and to translate them into the right technical decisions and systems.
• Maintain a healthy and effective team culture for your team and partner teams.

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