Software Engineer-II

Overview

At Microsoft, we recognize the importance of delivering the best assistance experience to better serve our global customers. The E+D IDEAS team in Noida is fully committed to this mission and plays a critical role in bringing assistance technology to help customers win the moment. Our goal is to empower Microsoft users with delightful assistance experience across Microsoft ecosystem. We are seeking a full stack software engineer who is passionate about reliability, performance, compliance, and innovation within our services and platforms. Our focus is on delivering trusted and efficient experiences to customers and product partners, while maintaining a diverse, agile, and supportive team environment. This position is an outstanding opportunity to be part of a team that enables and empowers Microsoft customers with delightful and world-class user experience. As a Software Engineer II on our team, you will have the opportunity to create shared systems and services that enable our company to deliver products to diverse markets and cultures.

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

• Designing code that considers the iteration and change required by the needs of the business – designs are resilient to change.
• Coordinating design reviews and presenting conclusions that fully describe customer scenarios and implementation trade-offs.
• Foster a data informed approach with everything you do from analysing and prioritizing business requirements, including customer feedback, and using metrics to prove success.
• Convey a clear understanding of the overall product architecture in the design and implementation for your feature areas through balancing functionality, performance, dependency, quality, and reliability.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our solutions by ensuring that components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
• Broadening your subject matter expertise and skills in different technologies.
• Proficiency in closing on design and code review decisions with your peers.
• Achieving proficiency in estimating your own work product.
• Review or complete functional and technical specs to ensure that they contain appropriate detail eliminating the need for revisions during the coding process.
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
• Assist with screening and interviewing to help build out highly capable, diverse teams.
• Work closely with the wider team to understand, analyse, and influence platform technologies and tools.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Math, or Electrical Engineering, 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.
• Solid debugging skills with code and data.
• Familiarity with all aspects of the back-end, including web services, relational databases, document databases and data access technologies.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, including Infrastructure as a Service, and Application as a Service and Platform as a Service.
• Familiarity in scalable service design and implementation.
• Familiarity delivering complicated technical solutions involving cross-group teamwork.
  

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.

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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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