Google Cloud Platform Engineer

Role: Google Cloud Platform Software Engineer

Looking for a Senior Software Engineer to anchor the technical direction of a full-stack product team building cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will architect and build across the stack in Java and React, set engineering standards, and mentor a squad of engineers while staying close to the code.

You will work alongside product, design and client stakeholders to translate business goals into resilient, scalable solutions — and act as a strategic technical partner rather than an order-taker. This role suits an engineer who enjoys owning outcomes end to end, from architecture through to production reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Technical leadership & architecture

• Solution design — Own the end-to-end architecture of cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform, balancing performance, cost, security and maintainability.
• Standards — Design, develop, and optimize queries and analytics using BigQuery for reporting and data insights. Manage deployments, monitoring, and troubleshooting in Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
• Decisions — Make and document key technical decisions, weighing trade-offs transparently for stakeholders. Ensure application uptime, performance, and reliability, including support for production incidents. Act as the single point of accountability for the application, liaising with stakeholders, business users, and other technical teams

Hands-on delivery

• Full-stack build — Design and build backend services and APIs in Java (Spring Boot), and modern, responsive front-ends in React.
• Cloud delivery — Deploy, monitor and optimise workloads on Google Cloud Platform using managed services, containers and CI/CD pipelines.
• Quality — Contribute production-quality code, conduct code reviews, and uphold test coverage and quality gates.

People & collaboration

• Mentorship — Mentor and grow a squad of mid and junior engineers; provide technical coaching and career guidance.
• Stakeholders — Partner with product owners, designers and client stakeholders to shape scope and sequence delivery.

Delivery — Support estimation, sprint planning and risk management as part of an agile delivery team.