Software Engineer II

About the Microsoft Shopping Team

Join the Microsoft Shopping team, where we deliver smart shopping experiences with personalization, savings, transparency, and convenience, giving confidence in every purchase. In a world where the thrill of finding the perfect item can quickly turn into disappointment, Microsoft Shopping is your personal shopping companion. We understand the highs and lows of shopping, and we believe it should always be an enjoyable and rewarding experience. We are dedicated to helping you make informed decisions that align perfectly with your needs and desires. At Microsoft Shopping, we are committed to empowering our customers to shop smarter and discover what they love. If you are passionate about transforming shopping experiences and driving the team to achieve greatness, this role is for you. With the power of AI, we are building best-in-class shopping experiences that span across all surfaces on Bing, MSN, and Edge.

The Opportunity for a Software Engineer II

Are you an experienced full-stack Software Engineer II interested in shaping the future of online shopping with Microsoft? Do you aspire to leverage big data and the latest Azure tools and technologies to build platforms and services that operate efficiently at scale? Are you passionate about innovation, ambitious, and result-driven? The Microsoft Shopping team is seeking an experienced full-stack engineer to develop a new immersive shopping experience with a modern, convenient user interface and highly performant, reliable systems for online shoppers at scale.

Microsoft's Mission & Culture

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.

Work Arrangement

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

• Participating in the definition of key scenarios, use cases, and end-user experiences.
• Managing complex feature ownership by working with product managers and engineering teams.
• Engineering development and maintenance for online, large scale, commercial, consumer or internal development applications.
• Evaluating a broad range of technologies, design, implement, and refine chosen solutions. Facilitate architectural changes through this process.
• Contributing to other engineers’ growth through code reviews and active collaboration.
• Remaining current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Defining and implementing metrics, monitoring, and testing framework for key features and KPIs.

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.
• Passion for supporting great quality, high performance, and reliable system/API.
• Customer focused, strategic, drives for results, is self-motivated, and has a propensity for action.
• Good problem solver; ability to solve problems that the world has not solved before.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Previous experience with data pipelines scaling to billions of records, LLMs, AI assisted development, and agentic design patterns.

Key skills/competency

• Software Engineering
• Full-stack Development
• Large Scale Systems
• AI & Machine Learning
• Azure Cloud Platform
• Big Data Processing
• System Design
• Problem Solving
• Code Review
• Performance Optimization