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Senior Software Engineer, Front End, Search Content Platform

Google develops next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another.
Frontend
Senior Software Engineer
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Consumer
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Description For Senior Software Engineer, Front End, Search Content Platform

Google's Search Content Platform (SCP) team is seeking a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to join their mission-critical team. This role is fundamental to Google Search, focusing on understanding and organizing content to deliver the best Search experiences. The team merges structured knowledge (Google's Knowledge Graph) with web content, partner data, images, and videos.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you'll be working on building great frontend and web applications to make development fast, easy, and elegant for thousands of developers across Google Search, Maps, YouTube, and other products. Your solutions will impact billions of users worldwide. The role requires expertise in frontend technologies, particularly TypeScript and React, and involves solving complex developer experience problems.

The position demands strong technical leadership, with responsibilities including code writing and testing, leading design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and system issue resolution. You'll be part of reimagining what it means to search for information, solving complex engineering challenges while maintaining universally accessible experiences.

The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of software development experience, strong expertise in frontend frameworks, and a proven track record of launching and maintaining software products. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on Google's core search technology while working with cutting-edge frontend technologies and contributing to products used by billions of people globally.

Working at Google means joining a company committed to equal opportunity and building a representative workforce. The role offers the chance to work on challenging problems at massive scale, with opportunities for growth and evolution as the fast-paced business develops.

Last updated 8 months ago

Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, Front End, Search Content Platform

  • Write and test product or system development code
  • Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies
  • Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices
  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality

Requirements For Senior Software Engineer, Front End, Search Content Platform

TypeScript
React
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products
  • 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
  • 3 years of experience with front-end frameworks, full-stack development, or API development

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