Software Engineer 2 - Frontend

Software Engineer 2 - Frontend at Microsoft

The Ads UI team builds core user interface experiences for advertising customers, helping advertisers efficiently create, manage, and optimize their ad campaigns. The team focuses on modern single-page web applications (SPA), delivering scalable, high-quality, and user-friendly frontend experiences on top of large-scale advertising platforms. We value engineering excellence, development efficiency, and actively embrace AI technologies to improve both productivity and product quality.

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Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop frontend features for Ads UI products, delivering high-quality and scalable single-page web applications
• Work in a frontend-first architecture with understanding and usage of a lightweight UI server layer built with ASP.NET / C#
• Use and maintain team-owned engineering systems, including build, deploy, and test pipelines
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code to continuously improve product quality and user experience
• Proactively identify technical and UX issues, propose improvements, and drive solutions to completion
• Explore and apply AI-assisted coding tools and AI tooling to improve engineering efficiency and code quality

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals with solid object-oriented design and problem-solving skills
• Solid experience in frontend development using modern web technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and React
• Basic backend and server-side knowledge, with familiarity in C# / ASP.NET or similar technology stacks
• Understanding of modern web application architecture and frontend-backend collaboration
• Ability to use CI/CD pipelines for development, testing, and release
• Solid communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with advertising, search, or other B2B products
• Experience using AI coding tools, or strong interest in applying AI to software engineering

Key skills/competency

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• React
• C#
• ASP.NET
• UI/UX Design
• Single-Page Applications (SPA)
• CI/CD
• Object-Oriented Design
• Problem Solving