Senior Software Engineer

Join the GroupMe team at Microsoft, where innovation meets community! We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in scaling our high-growth social app, which is at the heart of college and high school communities. 

As part of Microsoft, you will have the unique opportunity to blend GroupMe's dynamic startup culture with Microsoft's global resources and reach. You'll work on cutting-edge technologies, tackling challenges in scalability, security, and user experience to enhance how millions of users connect daily. Your contributions will shape the future of group communication, making it more seamless and engaging than ever before. If you share our enthusiasm for communication platforms and excel in micro-services architecture, we're eager to welcome you aboard. Let's build something amazing together. 

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.
 
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

As a GroupMe Server Engineer on the team, you will:

• Get to have a freedom and meaningful impact on one of the most popular and loved services in the world
• Be part of startup project within Microsoft.
• Work with other engineers on the team to design, architect, and implement new features end-to-end (other team members in Seattle, USA and Prague, Czech Republic).
• Collaborate with Product Management and Client teams to create rapid prototypes of new ideas
• Work closely with Work in a friendly, supportive environment. We care about the career trajectory and development of our engineers
• Use a wide range of different technologies
• Promote practices that ensure high-quality, scalability, stability, and performance

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, GoLang, Ruby or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience with software quality, combined with agile delivery.
  
• 4+ years of experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., design patterns, unit testing, code reviews, etc.)
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and commercial experience with all the flavors of web services (HA, Scaling, Resilience, Monitoring, …)
• 2+ years of experience and knowledge of services development best practices and methodologies with things such as Linux, Git, Docker, Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.), etc.
  
• 2+ years of experience and knowledge of object-oriented programming preferably Golang and Ruby and working with databases both SQL and NoSQL.
  
• Preferred experience of Kubernetes, NSQ, Redis, Kafka, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, TDD, Dev-Ops.
• Ability to effectively collaborate w