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We are looking for a software engineering individual contributor who is passionate about building modern engineering systems and processes that drives engineering productivity and velocity in digital enterprise. As a Software Engineer in the Engineering Fundamentals team, you will have the opportunity to be at the centre of key disruptive transformations and influence our industry’s Digital Transformation.

We are focused on solving the industry’s most interesting challenges in developing software at scale without sacrificing stability, quality, velocity, or code health. 

Responsibilities

Work in a team of software engineers responsible for all stages of the development cycle including early ideation, design, implementation, scaling solutions that are stable and healthy in our production environment
Instil best practices for software development and documentation ensuring designs meet requirements as well as adhering to all the privacy and compliance guidelines in handling critical user data
Collaborate with other engineers to build demos and apps to promote contribution of new ideas

Qualifications

Required qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or related fields like Electronic Engineering, Physics or Mathematics)
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and optimization of the same
• 2+ years of software development experience with backend services
• 3+ years hands-on experience in any object-oriented programming languages such as C/C++. C#, Java or Python

Preferred qualifications

• Strong communication and interpersonal communication/collaboration skills
• Passion for learning and ramping up of new technologies and code bases
• Data driven decision making

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At Microsoft, our people are central to our strategy. You will therefore build a Diverse & Inclusive team and Culture for the site, and act as a talent magnet in the local ecosystem - create, foster, and market a compelling value proposition to work at Microsoft in the local region. You will be responsible for site staffing plans and actively attracting, retaining, and fostering the careers of top engineer and leveraging the diversity of the landscape to cultivate world class talent who can create innovative solutions for global impact. 

This is a huge opportunity to make an impact at massive scale, with room for growth in discipline, team- building and customer engagement.

Qualifications

• You are an experienced team manager and effective leader who can influence effectively cross-group and cross-company. It's important that you love that kind of work and are proficient at creating and maintaining warm and productive working relationships with other teams.  And there'll be a new set of challenges arriving every day, so you’ll need to be able to help your team work closely with partners, reason about priorities, and create collaborative agreements about sequencing of work while maintaining good relationships across teams. You also ideally have experience in international software development, ideally with exposure to African talent market and the technical landscape.
• The role also requires a strong business operational management experiences and demonstrated capability in verbal and written communications across the ecosystem.
• There is a lot of deep distributed systems and security technology in this job, so a background in services, identity and security is a plus though it's not a prerequisite. What’s really important is that you can show empathy for customers, be sensitive to their needs and are proficient at guiding teamwork to deliver great solutions.  We are looking for a leader with the experience in running agile teams, passion for mentorship and team-building, and focus on the fundamentals.
• 15+ years of professional software development experience and/ or
• 15+ years of experience leading software engineering teams