Software Engineer - Android (Technical Leadership)
Meta Menlo Park, California, United States · $219K–$301K/yr
Software Development · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
Drive the team's technical direction and lead long-term vision for large-scale cross-company efforts. Partner with organizational leaders and infrastructure teams to build, scale, and optimize complex consumer products.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree in a technical field and over 12 years of programming and large-scale application development experience. Candidates must demonstrate a proven track record of technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring.
Benefits
Full description
We are the teams who create all of Facebook’s product used by more than 1.5 billion people around the world. Want to build new features and improve existing products like Commerce, Ads, Video, Groups, News Feed, Search, and more? Want to solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems? Facebook is seeking experienced full-stack software engineers to join our product teams. You can help build products that help us connect the next billion people, create new features that have billions of interactions per day, and be a part of a team that’s working to help people connect around the globe. Join us!
Responsibilities
- Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
- Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
- Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
- Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
- Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
- Create consumer products and features on a large scale
- Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
- Partner closely with infrastructure and operations teams to build and scale back-end services
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
- Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations
- Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
- Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
- 12+ years of programming experience
- 12+ years of experience with building large-scale applications, or similar experience
- 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building and scaling large products or systems
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Experience shipping products to millions of customers or have started a new line of product
$219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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