Senior Software Engineer

Do you love designing, engineering, debugging and solving software problems? Do you have a self-driven, proactive, and results-oriented mindset, with the skills to handle ambiguity, learn quickly, and tackle complex challenges across products? If so, come and join our team to create great learning experiences and boost daily usage. Our team's mission is to make browse, search, chat, Edge & video awesome for learning.

As a Senior Software Engineer for front end on the Learning Experiences team, you will have the opportunity to create innovative technology that inspires and empowers individuals of all ages with world-class, game-changing learning apps like Flip and Math Solver to awesome Edge, Bing and Copilot experiences that make learning more fun and productive than ever before. This role is highly collaborative and has tremendous career development and growth potential.

This role allows 50% work from home in the areas close to metroplitan areas around Redmond, WA or Minneapolis, Minnesota

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

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Designing and developing high quality, resilient and easily maintainable software.
• Collaborating with cross-functional disciplines to drive design, development, testing, and release of software that enhances customer experience.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Other

• 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, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience in React, TypeScript, Javascript, Remix or CSS.

Additional Qualifications:

• Exhibited experience with Remix, including deep understanding of the syntax, best practices, and the ability to write clean, maintainable code.
• Ability to communicate technical details clearly.
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.
• Cloud services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
• Exhibited analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 9, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration