Senior Software Engineer

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Part of the Microsoft Teams family of products, GroupMe is an ever-growing light-weight messaging platform that connects millions of people across the globe. Our engineering team is expanding, looking for talented engineers to join our services team. We are passionate about developing internet services at scale using open-source technologies. If you share our passion and are excited at the prospect of micro-service architectures delivering billions of messages at scale, we want to hear from you! Our team located in the heart of Prague, Czech Republic needs 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.

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
    
• Knowledge and commercial experience with all the flavors of web services (HA, Scaling, Resilience, Monitoring, …) owning projects from start to finish – from inception to maintenance.  
• Experience with software quality, combined with agile delivery. 
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., design patterns, unit testing, code reviews, …).
• Ability to effectively collaborate with teammates. Gain and share knowledge on daily basis! 
• Experience taking the initiative by identifying, documenting, and designing engineering solutions. 
• Minimum experience and knowledge of services development best practices and methodologies with things such as Linux, Git, Docker, Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.), etc. 
• Minimum experience and knowledge of object-oriented programming preferably Golang and Ruby and working with databases both SQL and NoSQL. 

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 Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,
  • OR Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
    
• Preferred experience of Kubernetes, Redis, Kafka, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, TDD, Dev-Ops would be advantageous. 

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

As a GroupMe Server Engineer on the team, you will: 

• Gather requirements, investigate, design, implement, test, and maintain services and infrastructure that have impact on our product.  
• Collaborate with product and client teams to develop features that delight millions of users. 
• Engineer solutions that enable high throughput of data at a global scale, embracing best practices for scalability, stability, and performance. 
• Be empowered to learn and grow; we care about your career trajectory and provide a supportive environment for a learn it all mindset.  
• Have the freedom to leave your own mark on the product. Our team encourages engineers to lead and if your idea is good, we’ll embrace it.  
• Be part of a remote-friendly team with a startup culture within Microsoft. Our engineers are across the globe with teams based out of Seattle, USA and Prague, Czech Republic.