Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Are you passionate about creating mobile magic? Do you love blending code, creativity, and cloud tech? As a Microsoft Mobile Engineer, you’ll build mobile-first solutions that empower millions of users worldwide.

We’re looking for highly motivated engineers with an interest and/or background in mobile platforms (iOS and Android) to help us build reusable controls. We are looking for engineers with a passion for design, coding and building mobile apps, customer focused and emphasized on engineering fundamentals. This role provides a unique opportunity to build for and directly impact multiple products simultaneously.

Join our dynamic Experiences team! In the Experiences team, we will develop compelling user experiences and applications. We work to build a fast, modern, mobile-first experience for our users and use AI-assisted contextual way to quickly organize content. We are also working to provide consistent share experience for photos, videos, files and other content across all Microsoft 365 Mobile apps for both Android and iOS platforms. The problems we are solving range from deep architectural improvements to building delightful user experiences powered by AI/ML and using the latest technologies. We work at a massive scale, and use the best-in-class infrastructure that boosts developer productivity and engineering velocity.

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.

Responsibilities

Your role as a Senior Software Engineer will be to help make tradeoffs, advocate engineering excellence, design, build, and support application development for Android and iOS.

• Help make technology choices for the product and make appropriate tradeoffs.
• Dealing with ambiguity and bring clarity on feasibility and provide design options for complex problems.
• Act as tech lead and drive a feature crew of 2 to 3 folks and contribute to code and design reviews.
• Make design decisions to deliver a fast, secure, and usable application. Being data driven to keep the quality of the product high.
• Engineer features with strong attention to performance, robustness, resource usage and writing high quality code.
• Contribute in partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, design team) to determine user requirements for project.
• Working with partner teams independently and rationalize the design tradeoffs.
• In alignment with our Microsoft values, committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors 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 equivalent experience.
• 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Android(Kotlin, Java, Jet pack compose and C++) or iOS(Swift, Objective C, Swift UI, iOS UI Kit, C++) and knowledge of end-to-end software development life cycle for Android/iOS.
• Good depth of knowledge in the MVC, MVP, MVPC, MVVP architecture and advocate design patterns where necessary.
• Proven skill in designing at product level.
• Fast learner with good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Strong in analytical problem solving, identify patterns of the bugs and fix them through right design, good fundamentals in CS.
  

Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. 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.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Having good expertise in both Android and iOS platforms.
• Proven capability in tuning performance and reliability of apps.
• Hands-on experience in developing reusable controls and have exposure to designing framework for a project.
• Contributions to open source.
  

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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