Microsoft's Office Growth and Experiences (OGX) team is looking to improve the performance and reliability of Office applications across Apple platforms (iOS, Mac) by focusing on foundational components and enterprise features.
Requirements
- 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, JavaScript, or Python
- 2+ years of industrial/production software design and coding experience in at least one variant of C (C, C++, Objective-C, Swift).
- Proficient in debugging and memory management is a must.
- Experience in performance profiling, optimization techniques & concurrency models is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Execute & drive end-to-end efforts to improve performance & reliability of Office iOS apps, including design, coding, and extensive instrumentation.
- Analyze heat map, identify hotspots, design solutions, and drive these improvements into production.
- Collaborate with teams across Office to improve the performance & reliability of Office application boot, file I/O, real-time collaboration, authentication, mobile application management, and link open experiences.
- Contribute to designing robust test coverage for performance scenarios.
- Ensure that new and existing features maintain and improve user experience without regressions.
- Respond quickly to customer feedback & escalations and be proactive in identifying customer pain points and address them.
- Rely on telemetry and analytics to identify top performance & reliability issues.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Proven track record of delivering delightful, performant, and reliable commercial-scale client applications, ideally for Apple platforms.
- Communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and articulate complex technical concepts effectively.
- Passion for delivering best-in-class user experiences.
