Senior Software Engineer

Our team is proud to develop Microsoft Teams Desktop client, the world's first application developed using Microsoft Edge WebView2 technology.

We are a vibrant group of professionals who excel in a dynamic environment, leveraging a tech stack including C++, React, and TypeScript.

Our work culture thrives on creativity, collaboration, and the continuous push towards excellence.

We're not just developing software; we're shaping the future of communication in the digital workspace.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Profound technical experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or TypeScript.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Familiar with Agile framework and modern software development lifecycle.
• Good understanding of development for Window.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Flency in English.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or TypeScript
• OR equivalent experience.

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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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

Understand User Requirements

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
• Ensures appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value are incorporated.

Design

• Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans. 
• Develops design documents for designs or User Stories, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact.
• Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests).
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service or platform.

Coding

• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable.
• Applies debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products.
• Reviews the code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft’s quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area.

Implement

• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
• Drives creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, and interprets results from experimentation.
• Creates and updates implementation framework as necessary, following industry standards.

Reliability and Supportability

• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary.
• Drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. 
• Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring).

Engineering Excellence

• Builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, and identifies new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products.
• Considers and drives comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment of a product. 
• Drives efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. 
• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers.