JavaScript Engineer- FAST at Microsoft

Do you love frontend architecture and infrastructure at scale? Do you want to create the best front-end engineering systems? Are you passionate about helping other developers? We’ve got an incredible opportunity for you. We have positions for in the FAST Experiences organization, creating best-in-class engineering systems primarily implemented using TypeScript.  

Microsoft is increasingly leaning into a technical strategy of leveraging JavaScript as the standard UX programming language. We’re working on consolidating over 300 JavaScript repositories and engineering systems towards a highly scalable engineering system for internal JavaScript developers. If you love the challenge of scale and working with and for developers, this is a position for you! 

To manage the current and continued demands and growth we need to work together as a unified JavaScript community, both inside Microsoft and the broader open-source community. Working in FAST Experiences, you will have an opportunity to help shape how we develop JavaScript across Microsoft and the industry.  

Responsibilities

• Working with product management and developers to formulate specifications for features.  
• Architect and implement engineering system features for maximum performance, testability, reliability, and developer delight.  
• Improve our software engineering processes as we ship to over 40+ Microsoft products on all platforms.  
• Run A/B experiments and make data-driven decisions.   
• Leverage best-in-class development practices and follow the fast pace of the open-source community  
• You will be working in a dynamic, collaborative environment where learning is key.  

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as Full Stack Software Engineer/Front-End Software Engineer  
• Interest and excitement working with JavaScript/TypeScript  
• You have experience building web and/or JavaScript tooling  
• Have experience working with CI/CD systems  
• Very qualified candidates will have experience working on UX frameworks across multiple platforms and have shipped cross-platform components/applications.  
• You are proactive and a driving force to get things done   
• You have good knowledge of agile working methods  
• You have great written and oral presentation skills