Software Engineer II, Feeds Features

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• 1 year of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience utilizing modern IDEs (such as VSCode or Cider-V) and leveraging AI assistance for code generation or workflow automation.
• Experience in using LLM and applying AI/ML concepts to design autoraters, evaluate data quality, or streamline development processes.

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.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain code for software solutions supporting Google Merchant Center's data ingestion and feed management systems based on defined requirements.
• Contribute to backend services and frontend experiences (using C++, Java, Dart, or distributed systems) that process merchant product data, ensuring code is high-quality, well-factored, and resilient.
• Work alongside cross-functional partners (Product, UX, and other Engineering teams) to implement merchant-facing features and data quality insights.
• Support engineering excellence by participating in code reviews and writing thoroughly tested code. Help keep data pipelines reliable by troubleshooting system issues and applying standard technical solutions.
• Utilize LLMs and Gemini to help build autoraters for evaluating product data quality and to automate testing workflows.