Software Engineer II-Xbox

On Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. We are leading with innovation, as highlighted by bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming, bringing the Game Pass subscription to PC, and our recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard King creating exciting new possibilities for players.  

The Xbox Experiences and Platform Commerce (XPC) group is responsible for helping those gamers discover and acquire digital game content, as well as ensuring that developers and publishers have low friction access to our ecosystem. We work closely with teams across Xbox, as well as both internal and external game studios.  We’re always striving to find new and innovative ways of incorporating the latest in design patterns, web technologies, and machine learning to create better experiences.

Our engineering team is on the lookout for a full-stack engineer who excels across the entire stack, from infrastructure to API services and frontend development. We are particularly interested in someone who has a true passion for crafting exceptional web experiences. This role offers the opportunity to work on innovative projects that will shape the future of gaming and have a significant impact on how game creators can be successful on our platform.  

Required  

• 3+ years of experience delivering quality web applications in a fast-paced environment
• 3+ years building Web applications using modern front-end and CSS frameworks.
• Strong understanding of modern CSS and responsive website design.
• Understanding data structures, algorithms, threading, synchronization.  
• You are an ambitious teammate who is passionate about learning, sharing knowledge, and making your teammates successful.  
• You are creative and have strong design, development, and collaboration skills.  
• 2+ years of experience with one of more of React.js, Next.js, Node.js, ASP.Net Core, TypeScript
• Advanced English level

Preferred   

• Experience with C# OR Java
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, services, and cloud storage technologies. 
• Familiarity with containerization and one or more of Azure, AWS or GCP.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science (or equivalent). 
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment, demonstrating adaptability and creativity in unfamiliar domains to overcome challenges and deliver impactful outcomes. 
• And we would love to hear about your consistently positive performance history. 

Cultural Attributes  

• Ability to bring a diverse perspective which drives business success.  
• Growth mindset with a desire to learn, an interest in embracing challenges, persisting in the face of setbacks, sees failure as essential to mastery, learns from criticism and finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others.  
• Active participation in creating a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard.  
• Ability to synthesize information from various sources and summarize it for others.

We welcome gamers and non-gamers alike, and actively seek out new perspectives to make our products better for everyone. Come join Experiences on Team Xbox and help define what’s next for Gaming! 

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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.

• As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for feature design and implementation, holding a high bar on quality and delivering your projects through meticulous execution. You build features yourself and work with other engineers to drive features and engineering excellence improvements.  
• As a primary feature owner, you will ideate, scope, and drive implementation, validation, and health monitoring.   
• Your time will be balanced implementing new features and Engineering Excellence, contributing to our Xbox Mobile Store infrastructure area like security, performance, reliability, accessibility, shared libraries, telemetry, and more. 
• Build real-time data monitoring and alerting signals to monitor the health of features you ship to know when critical errors happen and when critical dependencies fail. 
• Solve complex problems that allow for innovative features across multiple devices and services. 
• You will be an active participant in a community of creativity, inclusion, and respect.