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Staff Software Engineer, Creativity Foundations, Photos Create

Google· Google Photos Create
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Hybrid (New York, NY; Mountain View, CA)$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Software engineer role focused on building creativity features and integrating generative media technologies within Google Photos Create, with opportunities to influence technical direction and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Be an owner and build new creativity features, balancing innovative explorations and usages of gen media technologies and scrappy prototyping in a fast-moving space to find a good product-market fit for our new features.
  • Steer both short and long term technical investments in this space, and help set the direction for the team.
  • Lead collaboration efforts across Photos to elevate our team and expand the reach and capabilities of our tools.
  • Help the team grow full-stack to own features end-to-end.
  • Bring DevAI breakthroughs and best practices to elevate the broader engineering team.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  • 5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Skills

Required:Full stack developmentBack-end languages (Java, Python, Golang, or C++)JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSSSoftware design and architectureExperience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces
Nice to have:Technical leadership

Benefits

  • US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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