Software Engineer II

Interested in being part of a team that helps our customers be more productive and thrive with data-driven, privacy protected insights and recommendations? Come join us! Viva Insights aims to create cultures where people and businesses thrive by improving how people and organizations work with data and insights. We are here to help employees be better at work, and organizations achieve important business outcomes. Learn more about Viva Insights: Introduction to Viva Insights.  

We will only achieve our mission if we live our culture. We start with becoming learners in all things and apply that mindset to learning about our customers, being diverse and inclusive, working together as one, and—ultimately—making a difference in the world. 

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 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years' experience building backend systems in Java for customer-facing web applications, including API design and implementation. 
• Experience developing full stack applications using Web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, React, CSS, Typescript on the front end. 
• Proficiency in writing unit tests. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years 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 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years' experience building backend systems in Java for customer-facing web applications, including API design and implementation. 
• Experience developing full stack applications using Web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, React, CSS, Typescript on the front end. 
• Proficiency in writing unit tests. 

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.

#VivaEXP 

• Works with stakeholders to determine service and user requirements for a set of features, including but not limited to analytics, reporting and big data systems.  
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.  
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.  
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.  
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.  
• Embody our culture and values.