Microsoft Teams is revolutionizing how people communicate and collaborate across the globe. The Core Messaging group is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to deliver next-generation innovations and partner with product and engineering teams to invent and deliver on the future for Teams AI and Messaging products.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience with modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, Redux, MobX, or similar frameworks), front-end performance optimization, and responsive design.
- Experience with integrating front-end applications with backend services (REST, GraphQL, or other APIs).
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- Problem-solving and analytical skills, with a track record of leading complex software projects.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate and work across multiple disciplines to deliver innovation.
- Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
- Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
Other
- Communicate priorities and tradeoffs to lay out a path for achieving a vision.
- Inspire without authority across teams and motivate individuals to work together towards common goals.
- Thrives in a bit of chaos and creates the structure needed to execute smoothly at scale.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a remote team environment.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and deliver quality work on schedule.
