About the job
Our mission as the Search Notifications team is to deliver fresh, personalized and timely notifications to billions of people around the globe through the Google Search App. We are pivoting to be an AI notification product and building the notifications platform as a true marketplace which is a self-learning reward based system that optimizes for the best notification user experience by picking among competing producers. Marketplace incorporates the economics including rewards and penalties for the right incentives, doing the right thing for the user (which is the consumer), and optimizing for the opportunity cost on a highly visible interrupting surface like Notifications. In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere.
Responsibilities
Specialize in the iOS Google App Notification, building client features for rich user experience.
Build the user visible notification experiences including tray optimizations, rich iOS features.
Build new user controls for notifications to protect the user channel and understand user preferences to improve the product.
Contribute to new and growing surfaces like live notifications and dynamic islands that are big bets for growing Search usage on iOS.
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
Minimum
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience with software software development in Swift programming language, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
2 years of experience with iOS application development.
Preferred
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
2 years of experience with user experience and client-side development.
2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
Experience developing accessible technologies.