Software Engineer, Google Wallet, Multimodal Intelligence

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C++, Java).
• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in machine learning and AI evaluations.
• Experience in backend systems and data processing.

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.

In this role, you will optimize user journeys, improve model performance or latency and maximize sustainable user growth. You will contribute significantly to Google Wallet achieving one of its most critical missions: Wallet as an account primitive in Google, connecting Wallet to all first-party products effectively.

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

• Design and build scalable ingestion pipelines to detect, extract, and import pass data across Gmail, Photos, Chrome, and Android into Google Wallet spanning boarding passes, event tickets, loyalty programs, transit, IDs, and receipts.
• Develop multimodal extraction engines, leveraging on-device ML models on Android, Gemini/LLM-based parsers in Gmail, and dedicated PDF document extraction alongside Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and barcode processing.
• Drive integration quality, performance, and reliability across Google Play services modules, back-end services, and client frameworks, ensuring high precision and low latency for pass detection.
• Participate actively in technical designs and code reviews, fostering engineering excellence and robust testing standards across the team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, UX, and partner intelligence teams across Google to define requirements, integrate multimodal capabilities, and deliver seamless user journeys.