Software Engineer

Are you excited about the possibility of working on a brand-new product for Microsoft? Are you fascinated by software which helps millions of people connect, work and live their lives? Are you driven to help others achieve more? So are we, the Places Reserve team. Microsoft Places is building the future of hybrid work by helping teams figure out when, where and how to meet and work best together.  

As a Software Engineer on the Places Reserve team, you will lead the conceptualization, design, and implementation of exceptional user experiences and highly resilient backend services. You will be working on a modernized tech stack while seamlessly integrating with established calendar workflows and APIs that currently serve hundreds of millions of users. This role offers a unique opportunity to further refine your product and technical expertise, as you balance agility and rigor.  

We are looking for engineers with strong technical skills and passionate about building great products, obsessed with security and performance as a key attribute of their designs, customer focused, and data driven to provide the best user experience strategically and efficiently.    

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in product building, cloud services, microservice architecture, and service API design. 
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and modern software development tools. 
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent industry experience   
• Strong analytical, design and communication skills  
• Strong customer focus  
• Excellent project management and communication skills  
• Excellent cross-team collaboration skills 
• Can work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and manage multiple tasks effectively. 
• Can work with technologies such as, but not limited to Git, .NET Core, REST, gRPC, C#, etc. 
• We are an inclusive team that values and respects one another's diverse perspectives. As part of our team, you would help us accomplish all that we do as a unified team, trusting in and learning from each other every day. While working with us and others, you will:  
• Brainstorm and communicate ideas  
• Listen to and incorporate feedback  
• Provide perspectives to others 

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.

• Functional design and development of new features to deliver experiences customers will love.   

• Writing maintainable, well-tested code, and the monitoring systems to ensure it functions well in production.  

• Using telemetry to discover bugs, customer pain points, and other opportunities for improvement to make our users’ lives a little better every day.    

• Working closely with engineers across the organization to ensure seamless experiences at scale.  

• Working with partner teams to brainstorm and communicate ideas, measure and incorporate feedback.  

• Striving to create clarity out of ambiguity, making concrete measurable progress to learn and grow not only yourself, but the team.  

• Listening to customer feedback to identify user pain and proactively fixing and improving the product. 

Other

• Embody our culture and values