Senior Software Engineer

Overview

With over 270 million monthly active users, Microsoft Teams is the fastest growing business application in Microsoft’s history. It is a collaborative communication product that brings together the complete power of Office 365 to empower teams to achieve more. As the foundation for teamwork and intelligent communications, Teams is a highly extensible hub and conversational canvas for first and third-party integrations.

The Teams Apps and Agents Adoption organization significantly contributes to Microsoft's success by implementing features and scenarios that empower customers and users to use the apps and devices in Teams. Our team’s mission is to drive Teams adoption by streamlining adoption of Teams apps and agents. We collaborate closely with multiple partner teams to ensure that Teams offers the most effective and comprehensive solutions for apps and devices management, marketplaces and monetization. While Teams is the primary focus, the canvas extends to all Microsoft 365 products and services. Our culture is inclusive, agile and result oriented; our team members come from diverse backgrounds and are grounded in our customer needs.

We are currently seeking an initiative-taking Senior Software Engineer with a track-record in design and implementation to join our world class team of software engineers. By becoming a part of our team, you will engage in solving diverse core engineering and strategic challenges, constructing solutions utilizing various backend and front-end technologies, to build a product focused on streamlining the adoption of Teams apps and devices. Our work culture emphasizes quality, innovation, and cross-group collaboration, providing you with opportunities to develop a broad range of skills and experiences, all while making a direct impact on millions of users. The role will involve designing highly scalable services and experiences using technologies like Angular, React, Typescript, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure Cloud.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the design, building, adaptation, execution, and maintenance of Apps and devices management full-stack solutions in Microsoft Teams.
• Effective collaboration within the Teams organization and with other product groups across Microsoft in the design and implementation of software solutions.
• Design, implement and operate products and features with focus towards modularity, component reuse, performance/reliability in close cooperation with product, design, and engineering teams.
• Own end-to-end service solution, code quality and efficiency.
• Use and promote technologies, tools and engineering practices based on the latest industry trends, market, and user dynamics. Understand product design and architecture, across the full Teams ecosystem.
• Contribute to product vision and roadmap by bringing innovation to server manageability ecosystem.
• Building and maintaining data pipelines and platforms that ingest, process, store, and serve large volumes of structured and unstructured data for analysis and reporting purposes.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alert stakeholders as to the status and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems. Respond within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Escalates issues to appropriate owners.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in developing enterprise grade large scale cloud applications.
• 5+ years of experience building applications from scratch using C#, C++, React, TypeScript, or equivalent languages; and you have a solid grasp of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns.
• 3+ years of experience in using SQL and/or No SQL databases and in system design.
• Extensive knowledge of cross-browser compatibility, responsive webpages, and implementation across devices.
• Demonstrated solid knowledge on cloud computing / Azure / AWS / GCP.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills and experience monitoring and improving cloud services.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Initiative-taking, self-motivated engineer capable of quick learning on an evolving set of technologies and collaborating with geographically distributed partner teams and peers.
• The ability to deal with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.

Key skills/competency

• Microsoft Teams
• Full-stack Development
• Azure Cloud Services
• C# Programming
• React.js / Angular
• TypeScript
• SQL/NoSQL Databases
• Scalable Services
• Data Pipelines
• Software Design Patterns