Developer Lead - Webops, Core Maintenance

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At Google Operations Center we help Google users and customers solve problems and achieve their goals—all while enjoying a culture focused on improving continuously and being better together. We work hard, we play hard, and we want you to join us!

Role Overview
In this role, you will lead the front-end team in developing responsive and high-performance user interfaces while collaborating closely with UI/UX designers and product managers to ensure design feasibility. You will maintain rigorous code quality standards through code reviews, optimize application performance for scalability, and act as a mentor to junior and mid-level developers. Additionally, you will serve as a key technical resource by unblocking the team, resolving complex bugs, and contributing to the growth of the engineering team through effective hiring and onboarding processes.
 

Position Responsibilities

• Develop User Interfaces: Lead the front-end team in development related activities, while addressing and resolving technical queries from the team.

• Collaborate on Design: Collaborate with UI/UX designers to turn visual designs into working code.

• Maintain Code Quality: Conduct internal code reviews and enforce the writing of clean, well-documented, and testable code adhering to Google coding standards.

• Optimize Performance: Employ advanced techniques to ensure applications load quickly, run seamlessly, and scale across diverse devices and web browsers.

• Mentoring: Guiding junior and mid-level developers, pairing with them on complex bugs, and helping them level up their skills.

• Unblocking: Acting as a shield for the team by removing technical hurdles, resolving access issues, or clarifying ambiguous requirements.

• Hiring & Onboarding: Participating in technical interviews and creating seamless onboarding processes for new engineering hires.

• Aligning with Product & Design: Working closely with Product Managers and UX/UI Designers to assess technical feasibility, negotiate scope, and ensure designs are practical to build.
   

Minimum Requirements

• Professional Experience: A solid background with a minimum of 10+ years of professional experience working as a Developer, combined with 3-5 years of demonstrated capability in functional or direct team leadership, guiding technical initiatives, and mentoring team members.

• Technical Capabilities: Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Framework Expertise: Practical, hands-on experience utilizing modern frameworks, particularly Angular.

• Development Tools: Familiarity with modern build tools such as Webpack and Vite, Git for version control, and state management libraries.

• CMS Proficiency: Skilled in working with various content management systems, including both traditional/coupled and headless CMS architectures.

• Interpersonal Skills: A strong eye for detail, outstanding verbal and written communication abilities, a passion for crafting excellent user experiences, and exceptional leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Having as many of these specific qualifications is a plus, but transferable skills/experiences may be equally valuable:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Hands on experience with headless CMS like Brightspot, Adobe Experience Manager, Contentful OR Drupal

Benefits

• We support you with competitive wages and with comprehensive health care including medical, dental and vision coverage

• We support your family with gender-neutral baby bonding leave, 26 week birth-parent maternity leave, and generous life, accident and disability insurance minimums

• Employees who work onsite can enjoy free meals and snacks, and fun onsite experiences

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Thanks for your interest in this opportunity! Our recruitment team will contact you if your profile is a good fit for the role. If you don't hear from us within 2-3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful at this time. We value your patience throughout this time. For any questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].