Software Engineer - Backend

Microsoft is looking for Backend Software Engineers to come work on a range of cutting-edge technologies and platforms that power these mission critical services. Our Engineering teams in Ireland work on the most challenging engineering problems, allowing us to solve issues that nobody has solved before. Serving billions of users, our teams run services that are critical to the day-to-day experience of every Microsoft Cloud user. 

As a Software Engineer at Microsoft Ireland, you will develop solutions used by billions of people around the world, with teams working across our Cloud & AI, Microsoft AI, Experience & Devices, Security, and Gaming organisations and contributing to products like Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Entra, Teams, OneDrive & SharePoint, Office, and Mesh. 

You can learn more about our Engineering Dublin site here:   

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/engineering  

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/engineering/Life  

We have multiple opportunities available across our EDC (European Development Centre) and are looking for candidates who are curious to learn and grow with Microsoft Ireland.   

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience. 

• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C/C++, C#, Java, TypeScript. 

• Extensive experience with one or more modern web technologies such as .NET, Node, building RESTful APIs, and hands-on knowledge of web concepts such as HTTP, SOAP, and MVC. 

• Skilled building libraries, SDKs, and other development platform components, preferably using C/C++, C#, TypeScript. 

• Strong industry experience collaborating with others on designing, developing, testing, and shipping solutions to large scale technical problems. 

• Proven ability to design and develop loosely coupled, componentized, and unit-tested software. 

• Ability to deal with ambiguity and understand key business needs in line with competing priorities and apply the right technology and implementation to the solution. 

• Demonstrated strength to quickly get up-to-speed and be productive on new technical domains and are comfortable in dealing with ambiguity. 

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills with a solid understanding of object-oriented design, coding patterns, and testing practices. 

• Experience in Agile, DevOps, and building large scale micro services is a plus. 

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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As a Backend Software Engineer on the Microsoft team, you will:    

• Work with engineers, program managers, designers, and partners to deliver sets of features with the right overall design and architecture. 

• Own and deliver complete feature areas and large-scale solutions including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping with secure long-term support. 

• As a technical leader on the team, you will be responsible for sharing insights and best practices that can be applied to improve development and influence direction across related sets of systems, platforms, and/or products. 

• Continue to develop your approaches through interactions with more experienced team members and continually reviewing processes to ensure efficiency. 

• Provide mentorship and coaching to more junior engineers to help them identify and propose relevant solutions. 

• Write clean well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, reusability, and maintainability. 

• Be committed to delivering the best experience for our customers and partners, and then iterate based on qualitative and quantitative feedback. 

• Help create a diverse and inclusive culture, participating in hiring where appropriate, so everyone can bring their full and authentic self and where we do our best work as a result. 

• Take responsibility for reliable uninterrupted operation of features with the earliest detection of issues in production.  

• Foster a data driven approach with everything you do from analysing and prioritizing business requirements, including customer feedback, and using metrics to prove success. 

• Expose test coverage issues, organize, and implement tests and types of tests needed, and resolve problem areas. 

• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our customers and users.