Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft’s Path team helps customers along their journey from the initial idea to the final realization of their goals – from Idea to Plan to Done   We are responsible for collaborative work management products including Microsoft Project, Planner, To Do, and Visio. With Project and Planner, we help customers collaborate effectively to navigate complexity, determine critical paths, and orchestrate their plans to achieve more. With To Do and Tasks, we help customers capture, prioritize, and complete their aspirations and goals along their path to success. And with Visio, we help customers model and conceptualize information pathways that flow through process diagrams, organizational charts, and more to visualize what is and what can be. Collectively, we're responsible for an incredible portfolio of products and services that help guide people and organizations along their journey to achieve more. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Path Engineering team under OPG (Office product group). By using the next generation of work management experiences, and fusing Microsoft's Copilot technology and generative AI platform with the Path team's products, you’ll help create the future of how customers get things done – from diagrams and designs for systems, to generative plans for work and tasks to be done. You’ll reach tens of millions of customers with the technology you create and inspire hundreds of engineers on the team to go beyond what’s possible and create the work management platform for the future.

 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. By integrating the power of generative AI with tools for workflow management you will directly contribute to that mission empowering customers to achieve at a pace and scale beyond what has previously been considered possible. 

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

 

 

• Design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions.
• Knowledge of how products and services work, with a history of developing, deploying and evolving products in a dev-ops managed production environment.
• You will design features and capabilities to enable experiences for millions of users, interacting with the service through dedicated Web and mobile clients, and through Teams.
• Carry out quick technology “spikes” (or proofs of concepts, flighting) to create value in new features and service.
• Working in an agile and collaborative environment, you will interact with many of the other major Microsoft 365 teams to build cross service integrations, such as Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange.
• Clear and effective communication skills, be it when you write code, send emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers.
• A desire to make things better, whether it be in how we optimize our inner dev loop, how we test our code, or how we can make deployments happen at light speed.  You're always looking for ways we can be better as a team.
• Reliable and responsible work ethic. You enjoy taking on responsibility within your role, on projects you have initiated, and you also enjoy bringing out the best in your teammates.
• Analyzing and improving service efficiency and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for service improvements and new features.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including design documents, test plans, and user guides.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development and apply them to improve service offerings.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members to improve code quality.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in production environments, and work with the team to implement solutions.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to a positive team culture of continuous learning and improvement

 Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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, TypeScript or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience developing distributed web service applications with highly concurrent server-side code.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relate