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Staff Software Engineer, Mobile (Android)

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Compensation
$207–300K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical strategy and client architecture for the Gemini Android app. The role translates Google DeepMind research into intuitive Android experiences and works across engineering, product, UX, and research teams to shape roadmaps. It also includes mentoring engineers and building a strong technical culture. The position calls for mobile systems expertise, large-scale distributed systems experience, and technical leadership.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Mobile Systems Engineering, requiredDistributed Systems, requiredTechnical Leadership, requiredComputer Science Fundamentals, requiredHardware Optimization, requiredMobile Machine Learning, requiredSoftware Development, nice to haveAndroid App Development, nice to haveKotlin, nice to haveJava, nice to haveAndroid Front-End Development, nice to haveAndroid Framework Development, nice to haveAndroid UI Development, nice to haveAndroid Release Processes, nice to have

Qualifications

5+ Years Software Development, nice to have3+ Years Android and Front-End Development, nice to have

Full job description

Staff Software Engineer, Mobile (Android)

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Experience in mobile systems engineering (e.g., mobile application software development, mobile release management, mobile operating systems, software/hardware integration (e.g., SDK/frameworks, embedded software layers, devices).

  • Experience in designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability.

  • Experience in a technical leadership role, managing a team of engineers.

  • Experience with computer science fundamentals (e.g., data structures, algorithms, software design).

  • Experience in software optimizations on hardware, accelerators, or mobile Machine Learning software development.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages. Experience with Android mobile app development (Kotlin, Java).

  • 3 years of experience with mobile app development on Android and front end development.

  • Experience in developing or optimizing Android frameworks/products.

  • Experience in Android UI prototyping or development.

  • Experience in Android application development, tools, and release processes.

  • Experience in software optimizations on hardware, accelerators, or mobile Machine Learning software development.

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.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical strategy and client architecture for the Gemini App, designing modern, modular, and performant systems.

  • Partner with UX designers to craft fluid, highly responsive conversational interfaces, fluid motion designs, and intuitive modal interactions, ensuring the Gemini App feels like a natural extension of the user.

  • Translate complex Google DeepMind research breakthroughs (such as agentic behaviors, advanced tool use, and live experiments) into intuitive, high-quality Android user experiences.

  • Navigate high technical ambiguity to align engineering, product, UX, and research teams, shaping multi-quarter roadmaps and setting high standards for engineering excellence and developer velocity.

  • Mentor, sponsor, and grow junior and senior software engineers, establish rigorous code-review practices, and build a technical culture.

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How this job compares

Set against the 39,925 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$207–300K/yr
  • California median$164–243K/yr6,962 salary ranges
  • US median$133–216K/yr32,012 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $254K, is 24% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 8,557 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 39,925 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (32,903 postings).
Education
12,493 of the 39,925 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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