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Senior Software Engineer, Google Play

Google

KEfull–timePosted 8/19/2026
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Senior Software Engineer, Google Play Location: Nairobi, Kenya Experience Level: Mid Minimum 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. Preferred Qualifications: • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field. • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role. • Experience developing accessible technologies. About the Job Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. In this role, your work will ship on every Google-enabled Android device, delivering value for both Play's end users and the largest game developers in the world. You will craft experiences for gamers and game developers on Google Play, and on new upcoming products, contributing to a broad and technically challenging space. You will work closely wi

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