Senior Software Engineer, Google Play
Nairobi, KenyaFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Software engineer role focused on Google Play, delivering backend and frontend contributions across Android gaming experiences, collaborating with PM and UX, with opportunities to switch teams and work on high-profile projects in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Write and test product or system development code.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- Experience with server-side programming.
Skills
Required:Programming languagesServer-side programmingCode review
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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