Software Engineer II

Do you enjoy the thrill and energy of a startup coupled with engineering rigor? Would you like to be part of an agile, learning, empowered, energetic and collaborative team? Do you believe in clean design, crafted implementation, being meticulous about quality, obsessing about the customer and innovating daily? Come join a team of highly motivated developers working on Microsoft Edge! The extensive reach of Edge coupled with building delightful everyday experiences on a range of devices offers exceptional opportunities of independent ownership, working on cutting edge technologies, visibility in the open source community, opportunity to learn, contribute and evolve web standards (W3C, WHATWG) along with professional growth.

In this role, you’ll use your technical skills to deploy successful product releases, from early product definition and scoping to detailed specification, implementation and roll-out. You’ll work across both platform and UI features, running experiments to drive business metrics. We are deeply engaged in the Chromium OSS project and continue to work closely with other browser vendors, web standards bodies, and the open-source community at large.  Microsoft Edge  team is contributing to the Chromium project in media, input, graphics, layout, accessibility, scrolling performance, editing, controls, composition, animation, networking, storage and many other areas, powering Microsoft Edge and other Chromium based browsers. We are now on a journey to help satisfy unmet customer needs while contributing to the Chromium OSS project in a way that helps us move the broader web forward.

We are looking for an individual with high standards of excellence to join our engineering team to build amazing experiences that are robust, fast and seamless. The ideal candidate is skilled at design and implementation, able to adapt data driven engineering with fail fast approach. They should be able to learn and deliver.

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

• Develop and improve web platform features to bridge the gap between native applications and the web
• Create layered, componentized, testable, interface-based designs and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Collaborate across functional and partner teams to define requirements, Contributes to the identification of dependencies
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with engineers and program managers on open source projects
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Creates and implements robust code for feature with focus on quality, reusing code as applicable.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the reliability, performance, testability of product and adapt AI driven development.

Qualifications

Required 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.
• 4+ years of professional industry experience working on large projects.
• With experience with C/C#/C++/Java with a good knowledge of Data Structures/Algorithms.
• And 2+ years experience with app development.
• A BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• Excellent design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web technologies is a plus.
• Experience with Windows architecture and internals is a plus.
• Experience working on the Chromium open-source codebase is a plus.
• Multi-threaded application development.
• Experience working on the Chromium open-source codebase.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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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