Software Engineer II

Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines persistent chat, video meetings, file storage and apps. Teams is a ground up product, completely built on Azure cloud platform and cutting-edge Web technologies, serving millions of users world-wide, at scale.

We, in the Teams Platform, are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us and be part of an exciting journey in redefining workplace productivity solutions, that scale to our worldwide user base, across industry verticals and multitude of platforms and devices. In this position, you will be empowered to make product-wide technical decisions and directly impact the outcomes for this flagship product, working in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Our culture is inclusive, casual, and high energy; our team members come from diverse backgrounds and we are all grounded in our customer needs. This is a fantastic opportunity to build experiences that millions of people worldwide will use at home, at school, at work, and across their daily lives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
• 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• Strong technical, cross group collaboration and communication skills
• Experience in design and implementation of large-scale cloud services

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Exceptional coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Full-stack developer with proficiency in JavaScript, React, Typescript etc.
• Excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with strong testing, debugging and analytical 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.

- Play a significant architect role in shaping our software architecture.
- Take up E2E ownership of deliverables and produce viable solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive features to delivery.
- Ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of large-scale systems.
- Ensure availability and latency needs addressed by engineering reliability in software and systems.
- Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain high-quality code.
- Understand both technology and business to know the right tradeoffs to make.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and practices.