Senior Backend Software Engineer, Ads Planning

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. Java).

• 2 years of technical leadership experience and systems design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• 5 years of experience with product development.

• Experience with Data analytics, A/B testing, and Google Ads business.

• Experience developing accessible technologies.

• Experience with data structures/algorithms.

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.

Join us in establishing a new team in Warsaw dedicated to YouTube Ads planning strategy and products. We create experiences across tools and data, empowering advertisers and sales teams to plan and execute marketing strategies. You will have the opportunity to substantially impact business for YouTube and other Ads platforms (Search, Shopping, Apps, etc.).

Our focus is Insights, Benchmarks, and Narratives (IBN). These are key product areas aimed at generating business by arming the Google salesforce and external advertisers with pitch-narratives and ads-related benchmarks. This also provides automated pitching and reporting solutions to motivate advertisers to increase and shift ad budgets to Google. Benchmarks provides advertiser and industry comparison metrics, enabling informed marketing decisions. We believe high-quality, compliant, up-to-date, and consistent data, insights, and narratives are mission-critical.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, write, and test code for data-intensive backend applications, databases, and batch processing, executing the feature roadmap for the Connect Sales Reporting site using tech like Java, F1, Stubby, Bills of Qualities (BoQ), and Flume.

• Lead or participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select technologies, coordinating with product, UX, and sales leads on planning, goal setting, and product development.

• Review code developed by peers, providing feedback to ensure best practices in style, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.

• Manage the full production lifecycle, including monitoring, alerting, oncall rotations, and addressing user feedback. Triage, debug, and resolve system issues by analyzing their source and impact.

• Mentor and ramp-up junior engineers as the team grows, while also contributing to and updating documentation and educational content based on product changes and user feedback.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.