Software Engineer

Overview

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Software Engineer, you will help plan, design, develop and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products which may be used in local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs. This opportunity will allow you to develop software, tools and code to be used in support of design, infrastructure and technology platforms as well as commercial or end-user applications. You will use current programming language and technologies to write code, perform testing and debug any issues with robust documentation, procedures for deployment and processes for maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute in partnership with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature and incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
• Learn and contribute to processes for product/solution feature architecture, creating proposals by testing design hypotheses and refining code plans under technical leadership.
• Help produce code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assist with technical validation efforts.
• With guidance, create and implement extensible and maintainable code, applying diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability principles, understanding when code is ready for delivery.
• Review work items to gain knowledge of product features, assist with breaking down work items into tasks, provide estimations, and escalate potential delays.
• Learn about and contribute to operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis, identifying solutions and mitigations for simple performance or functionality issues.
• Help develop and contribute to automation within production and deployment of product features, running code in simulated or non-production environments to confirm functionality.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

Other Qualifications:

• Outstanding communication skills and collaboration capabilities.
• Independent, with internal drive and self-motivation.
• Self-learner with passion for technology.
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree (or currently pursuing) in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

Key skills/competency

• Software Development
• System Design
• Debugging
• Testing
• Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Code Review
• Automation
• Live Site Operations
• Feature Development