Senior Software Engineer

Our Culture: Microsoft Culture  

Our Team: Inside Microsoft's Web Experiences Team 

The Bing Places team is on a mission to empower people and organizations everywhere to explore, navigate, and connect in the physical world. We deliver great local search and maps experiences to hundreds of millions of global users as part of Microsoft’s Bing search ecosystem. We are responsible for building these on multiple platforms leveraging the latest rendering technologies for the web. You will ship your code using an agile platform that ships code to production multiple times a day. 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who brings great passion and innovative ideas for building intuitive, engaging, and differentiated user experiences with high performance and at scale. We are an agile team working in a fast-paced environment with no dearth of challenging problems to solve. We are at the forefront of evolving Search experiences from the traditional results pages to an immersive and visually rich UX that allows users to complete the most complex of tasks in the most efficient manner. As part of our diverse and inclusive team, you’ll have many opportunities to learn and grow and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the company to create new and innovative experiences.

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 similar engineering/software/services experience. 
  Relevant years of professional software development experience in designing, developing, and shipping high quality software products.
• Relevant years of experience developing Web-centric features, frameworks, or services using C#, Java, JavaScript, or similar languages.
• Demonstrable history of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with web technologies such as TypeScript, CSS, HTML, React.
• Experience writing and maintaining highly scalable web services.
• Clear communication skills and demonstrated customer empathy.
• Passionate and collaborative team player with a drive to work in a fast-paced environment.

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.

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• Deliver great user experiences partnering closely with Product Management, Design, Privacy and Legal teams.
• Own and drive projects end-to-end from design to coding to testing, running A/B experiments and analyzing results to make data-driven decisions, and maintaining production quality. 
• Lead by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code. Architect solutions and collaborate with other engineers as necessary. 
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices and operational excellence.
• Analyzing user data to identify product opportunities to meet business goals.