Senior Software Engineer - Workspace Experience

The Workplace Experiences (WEX) team is looking for talented engineers passionate about modern web application development to grow SharePoint and Office 365, create open source development platforms, and design elegant experiences for organizations and employees that work seamlessly across device boundaries and host environments. We are dedicated to empowering all employees to share their voice and stay connected in a hybrid world. SharePoint is the content and collaboration platform in the cloud that powers Office 365, where end users collaborate and where company knowledge gets written and shared within the organization. 

Our team owns SharePoint News consumption and the employee experiences platform, currently innovating with AI-powered experiences that connect users to their work, enterprise search, people, and organizational knowledge. We build cloud services that run at massive scale, fast, reliable, and secure.

If you’re passionate about delivering beautiful, fast, and reliable user experiences, working on cutting-edge cloud services at scale, and empowering the developer ecosystem, this is the role for you.

We leverage open-source frameworks like React and React Native, and technologies including Azure, C#, and REST services. You’ll collaborate closely with teams across Microsoft including Teams, Azure, Exchange, O365 Apps, Suite, and Engage.

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

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• 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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• A proven track record of delivering full project life cycles that provide great experiences to customers.
• Experience that includes an emphasis on agile development, and ability to write scalable frontend and backend code.  
• 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:

• Willingness to take a rotation as a Tech Lead to grow leadership, influence, and architectural skills, along with strong cross-team collaboration abilities.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

• Find additional pay information here:
• https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
• Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 16th, 2025. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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