Overview
We are looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to help us deliver highly scalable services and world-class product experiences.
You will have opportunities to work on multiple layers of the technology stack, ranging from customer-focused user experience work, building scalable distributed cloud services, working with big data, machine learning, and everything in between. You will learn how to design services and experiences that are required to work around the globe. You will collaborate with team members and other engineering groups in Microsoft to build full stack web applications and services using the latest web technologies in a dynamic and agile environment. You will be part of a fun-loving, diverse team that seeks challenges, loves learning and values teamwork. You will have opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and work on high-business impact areas.
Responsibilities
Successful candidates will exhibit these broad set of Characteristics to succeed in this position:
Collaboration – As most development is about working with others, both within an immediate team, as well as across business units and portions of the company, an ability to collaborate effectively is a core competency to have.
Customer Focus – A focus on delivering customer value and being able to directly tie engineering decisions and actions to that value is a huge plus for successful engineers at any level.
Drive For Results – Being able to drive for results, not merely finding the boundary of your responsibility, but following a problem through to its conclusion, to solve it once and for all, is a skill and ability which a successful engineer should exhibit.
Technical Excellence – Core to being a software engineer is of course technical excellence. This is not merely knowing the latest and greatest language developments, but demonstrating a passion for technology, a curiosity to ‘go deep’, and an ability to quickly learn and build upon past experiences, to be able to extrapolate from those experiences, and deliver innovations. Technical excellence is rooted in having a strong demonstrable aptitude for problem solving.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
7+ years of industry/working experience in software development using C#/C++/Java/Javascript/HTML/CSS/React/AngularJS/Web technologies
Experience with large-scale projects across divisions and landing complex but scalable architecture to meet agile business needs, online advertising systems, information retrieval systems, web search systems, big data systems, database applications, large scale internet applications, operating system, and/or distributed systems
Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment workflows and tools
Strong experience with frontend programming
Legally permitted to work in Canada
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with any of the following engineering areas: scalability, compliance, performance, security, privacy, reliability, accessibility, localization/globalization
Proven ability to develop successful long-term code/service architectures.
Excellent understanding of testing methodologies and practices
Excellent problem-solving skills with a solid understanding of the entire software development lifecycle
Experience in Azure DevOps and working across teams with different working processes
A systematic problem solver who quickly ramps up, understand complex problems, and create solutions that cross many services
Strong customer obsession to solve real user problems in enterprise search with ability to pick best technical solution on behalf of Microsoft balancing local team considerations
Interpersonal skills:
Growth Mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setback, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others
Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result
Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges
A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations.
Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively
May include: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
By applying to this position, you are being considered for multiple like positions within our organization for an invitation to our Virtual Interview Day on April 23rd, 2021. 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.
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