Senior Software Engineer

Viva Goals is a goals management SaaS solution that enables teams and organizations to define and manage their goals easily and effectively. As part of the Microsoft Viva suite, Viva Goals integrates into employee experiences, empowering teams and individuals to manage their goals from anywhere, and helps individuals foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and alignment, ensuring that everyone is working towards the same objectives. 

We are currently on a mission to reimagine and simplify the process of goals management for teams/individuals using the power of data (from other work-related systems) and AI. We are in the midst of building a brand new V2 version of the product from the ground up using the latest and greatest technologies. We are seeking successful Senior Software Engineers who will help us on this journey of building a large-scale enterprise-ready product. 

As a Senior Software Engineer in Viva Goals Application Services team, you will work on building user experience for the Viva Goal application. You will closely partner with teams/engineers internal and external to Viva Goals to develop workflows around data sharing between services as well as lighting up user experience flows in Viva goals and in other products (like Teams, Outlook, etc.). You will partner with product and design teams to envision new capabilities to solve critical customer pain points around making goals more accessible from any surface where work is done. 

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/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs) 
 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical discipline AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs) 

• 5+ years of working experience in designing, building, and managing highly available and distributed large-scale services. 

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably with full stack development using JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Python, or Go/Golang. 

• Proficiency in using open source frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, React/Angular 2+, Express.js, or others for building web applications and APIs. 

• 3+ years of working experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, or others, and familiarity with cloud concepts such as containers, orchestration, serverless, and microservices. 

• Knowledge of database technologies such as MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, or others, and ability to design, optimize, and query data models. 

• Some experience with UI development, including HTML, CSS, and responsive design principles. 

• Experience with existing M365 foundational technologies. 

• Proven excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with strong testing, debugging and analytical skills. 

• Familiarity with DevOps practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, testing, and monitoring. 

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. 

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.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements. 
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents. 
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). 
• Acts as a gatekeeper for product compliance, identifying and addressing security/privacy concerns. 
• Plays a key role in shaping the system architecture that provides measurable customer value along with driving engineering and operational excellence across the product.  
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders to drive project plans, release plans, and work items. 
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor the service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore the service when appropriate. 
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, scalability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. 
• Works with the team to improve the overall productivity through recommendations and improvements to tools and processes.