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Tech Lead Manager, Merchant Shopping, AI/ML Insights and Growth

Google· Merchant Shopping / AI/ML Insights and Growth
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Mountain View, CA, USA$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Tech Lead Manager responsible for building core pricing insights and a decision simulation engine to drive growth for merchants. Leads a team, sets design standards, interfaces with Ads/auction pipelines, and guides early-stage to scale initiatives within Google’s Commerce organization.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and optimize distributed, high-performance in-memory pipeline processing, maintaining a low-latency compute footprint.
  • Lead modeling evolution for pricing elasticity, conversion value, and profit models; expand architectures to support counterfactual business simulations for SMB decision-making.
  • Interface with Google Ads auction pipelines, inference stacks, and bidding mechanics to optimize pValue and ad rank.
  • Own technical oversight for first-party Google Channel integrations (e.g., Shopify Admin APIs, theme architectures, token workflows).
  • Set design standards, drive code reviews, mentor engineers, and lead the project from early stage to scale, driving long-term roadmap/OKRs, cross-functional partnership (Merchant Shopping, Research, Ads Bidding, gTech, Sales), and a strong culture of engineering excellence.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in backend software development and system architecture.
  • 2 years of experience directly managing a team of software engineers, including performance evaluations, career growth, and project delivery.
  • Experience coding in C++ and Java.
  • Experience building, deploying, and maintaining large-scale machine learning models or high-throughput data pipelines in production.

Skills

Required:Backend software developmentPeople/Team managementC++JavaMachine learning / data pipelines

Benefits

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

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