Principal Software Engineer

The Work Management Client experiences team in OPG Path organization is looking for a Principal Software Engineer passionate about working on various client end points like Outlook, loop and Mobile. As part of Microsoft’s vision of redefining work management in a hybrid & distributed workplace, we are building a new, truly modern project management tool. Microsoft Planner, Project & To Do are the suite of apps and services that enable managing tasks and projects across work and life for our users. It has rich features like real-time collaboration, AI, Automation through Power Apps, Gantt charts, Kanban boards etc. We are fast becoming THE hub for work management in Micrsoft 365 with thousands of organizations and users using our products and services. 

We are looking for Principal Software Engineer. In this position, you will get an opportunity to work on designing new client experiences in the Work Management space. You will drive design across different experiences like Outlook, loop, Mobile and AI powered experiences. You will collaborate with WM Services team and other partner teams like Outlook, loop etc., in achieving this. 

We need a strong talent with a good record of shipping products and with great design skills. The individual is a self-starter, highly motivated, execution-focused, designs solutions for scale and passionate about providing friction free experience for our customers.  

Our culture:      
We are an agile team of technical engineers. Customer obsession is rooted deep in every decision we take. We move fast, allergic to over thinking and fail fast. We believe in building solutions the right way and with a “do what it takes” attitude. We are a team, a family, that will always succeed only as one team where all voices are heard, and all opinions are welcomed.      

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical discipline  
• Exceptional engineering skills to collaborate across teams and to inspire talented engineering org 
• 10+ years of professional software development experience in architecting and building large-scale, reliable product experiences using one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, Java Script, React and React Native. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Own and deliver product experiences end-to-end.  
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.        
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.        
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our products by ensuring all the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.        
• Improve test coverage for products, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.        
• Consider testability, monitoring, observability, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.        
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.        
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.        
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site issues.      
• Participate in on-call rotations to support and debug customer-reported issues as well as internally created incidents.