Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Responsibilities

• Working with a team of software engineers and applied scientists you will be responsible for all stages of the development cycle including early ideation, design, implementation, integration, scaling out and monitoring.
• The implementations typically involve writing scalable, distributed, and highly efficient components and shipping large-scale backend services.
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, ensure designs meet requirements as well as adhering to all the privacy and compliance guidelines in handling critical user data.
• Collaborating with other teams on existing or greenfield projects, driving consensus and coordinating efforts to meet cross-team objectives.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or related fields like Electronic Engineering, Physics or Mathematics)
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms and algorithm optimizations
• 4+ years of software design and development experience with backend services
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in any object-oriented programming language such as C++, C#, Java or Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in writing high-performance code, profiling applications, identifying, and removing bottlenecks
• Strong communication and interpersonal communication and collaboration skills
• Passion for learning and ramping up on new technologies and codebases
• Data driven decision making
• BSc in Computer Science or Equivalent