Staff Software Engineer, Mobile (iOS), YouTube Create

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, and establish and evangelize best engineering practices across teams at YouTube. Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers.
• Lead designs of major software components, systems, and features.
• Launch the user facing features that revolutionize Video Creation (Long/Short Form) through the YouTube Create app on iOS.
• Work closely with our UX and Product Manager teams. Work closely with partner teams to integrate media processing, effects production, fun assets, client infrastructure, and more.
• Work in a combination of Flutter (for much of UX and data layer of the app) and native iOS (for media and backend integrations). Drive cross-organizational collaboration and ensure the strategy, direction, and decisions of multiple work streams are integrated, aligned, and positioned to support differentiation.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience with crash reporting and analysis tools (e.g., Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry) and proactive monitoring.
• Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and asynchronous programming.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle, agile methodologies, and architectural patterns.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.