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Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Wear OS

Google· Wear Core Platform Engineering
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Mountain View, CA, USA$207k - $300kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software engineer leadership role focused on Wear OS software platform development, with responsibilities spanning technical leadership, system architecture, cross-team collaboration, and end-to-end roadmap delivery for wearable devices.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of software engineers, providing technical mentorship, fostering career growth, and setting the standard for engineering excellence across the Wear OS platform team.
  • Act as a technical leader, contributing to system architecture, design, and code to resolve issues and enhance overall product quality and resilience.
  • Partner with various stakeholders, product teams, and key external SoC and hardware developers to maximize power, performance, and functionality on current and future wearable products.
  • Drive the end-to-end execution of the team's roadmap by actively participating in feature planning, work distribution, and delivering high-impact projects against fixed deadlines to support device launches.
  • Architect and develop innovative features that seamlessly integrate Google's services onto the wearable surface, helping to further scale and expand the Wear OS platform and its ecosystem.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
  • 3 years of experience with Android Framework development and on-device experience.

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadershipAndroid Framework developmentSystem architecture

Benefits

  • Learn more about benefits at Google (provided via link in description).
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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