Developer Relations Engineer, Android TV, TV

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in Android development.
• Experience with Kotlin programming language.

Preferred qualifications:

• 4 years of experience building Android apps.
• Experience contributing to an open source project.
• Knowledge of the Android development community via social media, blog posts, meetup talks, conference talks, etc.
• Passion for UI development and polished design.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.

About The Job
Passionate people are everywhere at Google. In Developer Relations, we get excited to collaborate and connect with the communities that love technology as much as we do. Part community manager and part developer advocate, Developer Relations Engineers collaborate with developers at conferences and online, and advocate for developers interests internally at Google. Not afraid to be hands-on, you write sample code and client libraries as well as participate in developer forums and support queues to troubleshoot and debug coding problems developers encounter. Internally, you work with product engineering teams to improve our products by conveying feedback from developers, reviewing API designs and testing new features. Chrome, Android, App Engine, HTML5 as well as our core Google Apps and Ads APIs are just some of the platforms you promote and support.

With your technical expertise, you drive strategy around fostering a community of developers who work with Google technologies. An ardent advocate for these developers, you represent their voice internally to our Product Managers and serve as their Google support in application development and technology implementation.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.

The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

Responsibilities

• Work with developers and internal stakeholders at Google to identify opportunities and land changes in tooling, libraries, and guidance that will boost productivity when building, debugging, testing, and releasing Android apps.
• Understand how the community is using compose and other Jetpack libraries and what bottlenecks are slowing down developers' work, elevating these issues to appropriate stakeholders and driving resolution on them.
• Identify opportunities for app developers to embrace emerging AI/LLM integrations to drive engagement in their apps and influence the roadmap for Google's developer experience strategy within the product area.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to provide feedback on APIs/libraries, influence the product roadmap, and craft the most relevant narrative.
• Create scalable developer resources including blog posts, sample code, codelabs, and opinionated guidance on how developers can more effectively leverage Jetpack libraries.

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