IT & Software

Technical Lead, Android Growth Systems and App Foundations

Google

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Technical Lead role, you guide high-impact projects and align cross-functional teams around goals, outcomes, and timelines. You design, build, test, and scale large software systems, leveraging AI tools to optimize workflows. You supervise a technical team of six while contributing as an individual contributor about half the time. You shape the Android ecosystem integration for Google Search, driving proactive, context-aware experiences. This position offers scale, leadership, and the chance to influence how billions search and interact with information.

Responsibilities
  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
  • Facilitate alignment across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions
  • Leverage AI development tools to optimize daily workflows
  • Manage a technical team of 6 engineers while spending ~50% of time as an IC
  • Collaborate with Product, UX, and cross-functional teams to integrate search into Android
  • Lead technical strategy and architecture discussions for the Android/Google Search stack
  • Drive evolution of OS-level entry points and proactive assistance features
Key requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of software development experience
  • 5 years of experience testing and launching software products
  • 5 years of experience with Android application development
  • 3 years of software design and architecture experience
  • Strong leadership experience (minimum 3 years) in project teams and setting technical direction
  • Experience in a complex, matrixed organization with cross-functional projects
  • Experience with modern Android development (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Material Design)
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • leadership and people management
  • strong communication across teams
  • Android development (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Material Design)
  • software design and architecture
  • testing and product launch processes

Reference: WJ-747_30137742

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