Backend Software Engineer, Mineral

X is Alphabet’s moonshot factory where uncomfortably ambitious, world-changing ideas are developed and taken out into the world.

X projects have the potential to transform the lives of billions of people and make the world a radically better place.

For X to be successful, we have to repeatedly turn breakthrough technology ideas into products that solve large problems in the world, and create meaningful businesses for Alphabet.About the team:Modern agriculture faces an enormous array of challenges, as growers must produce more food on the same or smaller amounts of land, using fewer inputs, all while competing with unrelenting pressure from disease, pests, and a changing climate.

Solving these problems demands radical new thinking.How You Will Make an Impact:Leading the design and implementation of backend, and database for map-based web/mobile products and APIs for customers.Building big data pipelines for organizing, generating and processing image and structured data.Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.Meeting both technical and consumer needs.What you should have:BA/BS degree (In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience).Experience with Google Infrastructure, e.g., Flume, Spanner, GCS, etc.Good understanding in basic computer vision and machine learning methods.It would be great if you also had these:Willing to work in a fast-paced, start-up like environment.

Fast learner who is able to think through and adapt to new problems quicklyStrong team player with excellent verbal and written communication skillsExperience working on large-scale consumer facing products and handling large traffic.Experience working with Google Earth Engine or Google MAP APIExperience working with OnePlatform APIs.Experience working with Google cloud app engine.Demonstrated ability to operate across the full range of product development (from ideation to launch/scale).About X, the moonshot factoryX creates radical new technologies to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

We develop uncomfortably ambitious, potentially world-changing new ideas such as self-driving cars, balloon-powered Internet and smart contact lenses.

We’re a team of makers, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers and scientists with deep technical expertise who love the challenge of the seemingly impossible.

X was formerly known as Google(x) and is part of Alphabet.