Software Engineer II

Overview

We are a team that is building applications and services that will revolutionize the learning experience in millions of classrooms worldwide. Our challenge is to shape the future of education. Are you curious about a diverse team with a startup feel and a hackathon culture inside Microsoft? The Microsoft EDU team is chartered with creating unique sets of experiences for students and teachers. Our goal is to empower all of them to achieve more, and we are hiring in Microsoft Vancouver.

Our goals are big and impactful and the work is fun and rewarding. As a group, we place a strong emphasis on cultivating a culture of inclusion. We are looking for enthusiastic, smart, passionate engineers to take up this new challenge, and collaborate positively with our crew. As a Software Engineer II , you will be developing full stack code and be a key player across all areas of the engineering lifecycle, including eliciting requirements from customers, defining the feature in partnership with UX designers and Product Owners, building the experience by writing the code, testing it and shipping it with quality and on time, and sustaining it through its maturity. You will learn about new technologies, challenges and opportunities in the Education Tech sector, and become an even better collaborator and communicator. We also expect you to share their ideas, ask a lot of questions, show a desire to make our team better, and learn and adapt quickly.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and experiment with the use of AI tools and workflows and other frontier technologies to make the job of engineer easier and more productive.
• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts (at times i.e. in rotation) as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Leverages the work of others, including the work of peers, of internal Microsoft solutions, and of open-source and industry solutions, to avoid reinventing the wheel.
• Designs cloud solutions using microservice architecture and other techniques. Packages up solutions to make them easy and attractive for other teams to follow.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional development and design experience in object oriented languages, with responsibility ownership across entire features.
• Hands-on software development and coding are core responsibilities of this role.
• Experience with cloud compute and cloud storage, preferably Azure.
• 2+ years of professional experience building backend web services with REST, GraphQL, or OData, and frontend experiences with JavaScript, TypeScript and a modern framework like React.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Depth of knowledge and language experience in .NET C#.
• Experience in service delivery technologies (ASP.NET WebAPI+MVC Razor, WCF) and industry standards (REST, OData, GraphQL, JSON).
• Depth of knowledge and language experience in JS/TS.
• Experience in experience delivery technologies (build tools, css, state management, routing, telemetry, responsive design, accessibility).
• Solid scalable database background (SQL, Azure Table, DocumentDB, etc.).
• Good understanding of identity systems (OAuth2, etc.).

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Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $85,800 - CAD $169,300 per year.

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Software Engineering IC3 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 85,800 $ CAD à 169,300 $ CAD par année.

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Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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