Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Auto

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of work experience in a technical role (e.g., software engineering, solutions consultant, etc.) or equivalent technical experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience working with engineers outside the organization.

• Experience with Android development.

• Experience in web application or mobile application development.

• Experience using Kotlin.

About the job

Passionate people are everywhere at Google. In Developer Relations, we get excited to collaborate and connect with the communities that love technology as much as we do.

Part community manager and part developer advocate, Developer Programs Engineers collaborate with developers at conferences and online, and advocate for developers interests internally at Google. Not afraid to be hands-on, you write sample code and client libraries as well as participate in developer forums and support queues to troubleshoot and debug coding problems developers encounter. Internally, you work with product engineering teams improve our products by conveying feedback from developers, reviewing API designs and testing new features. Chrome, Android, App Engine, HTML5 as well as our core Google Apps and Ads APIs are just some of the platforms you promote and support.

With your technical expertise, you drive strategy around fostering a community of developers who work with Google technologies. An ardent advocate for these developers, you represent their voice internally to our Product Managers and serve as their Google support in application development and technology implementation.

The Android Auto Developer Relations team works with developers to bring and optimize their apps for Android Auto. This involves supporting Android app development, adopting cars best practices and understanding the business conditions for an Auto app to be successful.

As a Technical Lead, you will work within the Android Developer organization and support Android Auto and Android Auto OS with third-party developer engagement. You will focus on APIs, products, services, and tools that enable developers to build great experiences for their users.

Android is Google's open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world.

We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

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Responsibilities

• Work with developers to drive adoption of high quality Android Auto integrations.

• Provide engineering direction and assistance to design, build, launch, and improve developer products.

• Become an expert in the relevant Android Auto developer products and APIs, and identify opportunities for Google and developers to create better products for users.

• Collaborate with Android Auto product teams and engineering teams to deliver the most relevant developer narrative to Android Developers.

• Work with external developers, generate developer insights, create written guidance, write example code, author blog posts, design APIs, propose product changes, influence engineering plans, discover developer stories, and inspire developers.

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