Senior Software Engineer

We are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to join our team!

 

Microsoft is embarking on a new effort to address the growing needs of employees around the world. We are building a product suite designed to address the fundamental shift in how people learn and build their career. We are looking for team member who are excited to join our team and make a difference with Microsoft Viva. Employee engagement is undergoing a fundamental shift in response to economic, demographic, and societal changes. People want to be excited about their work, be connected to their company culture, understand how to succeed, and feel supported across a spectrum of onboarding, skilling, coaching and mentoring. Our team is dedicated to examining the employee journey and delivery software and services to make it better. We care about stunning design, accessible user experience, and good engineering practices – we love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, responsive, performance. 

  

We are looking for experienced Senior Software Engineer to balance the role of individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. This job has the option to be in Redmond WA or remote. The Employee Experience team is run as a start-up, encouraging team members to share a sense of “founderism”. Team members engage directly with customers, iterate rapidly, and focus on solving the needs of employees around the world. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and high energy. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds, and values passion for serving our customers. Our team has a sense of accountability and provides its members with opportunities for learning and career growth.  

 

If this sounds exciting to you, we would love to hear from you. 

 

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

• Plan and implement beautiful, crisp, and maintainable user-facing experiences that are accessible to everyone.  
• Provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and organizationally critical programs.  
• Drive long-term design thinking for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.  
• Partner and work collaboratively with people across Product, Design, and Engineering teams spanning across geographies to deliver complex, large-scale experiences.  
• Optimize code for best performance and accessibility.  
• Propose and implement robust, scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions that are tested, reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.  
• Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving.  
• Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning.  
• Help shape the experience for hundreds of millions of managers and employees in a newly emerging category – Employee Experience Platforms.

 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, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in product web UI application development and shipping world class experiences.
• 4+ years of software engineering experience with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, a modern web framework (e.g., React, NextJS), or other frontend language.  

Other Requirements Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's