Microsoft Word is growing! We are looking for creative and driven software engineers with passion for web, services, and/or full stack development to achieve our vision of redefining the future of documents across all platforms and devices. We are looking for a software engineer to help us deliver exciting new capabilities to the online version of Word. These capabilities will range from low level capabilities of a world class word processor, to supporting new modes of work/collaboration, and explorations into futuristic capabilities for how Word enhances your ability to write.

　　  As the Principal Software Engineering for the organization, you will require cross-function integration knowledge, strategic thinking, and superior inter-personal and communication skills.

　　The role is responsible for the overall design and architecture of Word web and around the existing landscape, as well as envisaging and enabling future state infrastructures that will support modern, intelligent services and user experiences, through technological innovation and building partnerships across the company. You will work with the organization Partner-level leader and their leadership team of engineering principals in addition to partnering with leaders across Word and other M365 ecosystem. This position will be directly responsible for driving critical fundamental changes in Word web to improve performance, reliability and modernizing the application to newer web technology.

　　  If you’re interested in working in a startup-like environment with a unique opportunity to make an impact on core productivity app like Word, then we’d love to hear from you. In this position, you will be part of a team that seeks challenges, loves learning, and values teamwork. You will collaborate with team members and partners to build resilient, scalable applications using the latest technologies in a dynamic and agile environment, and have opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and work on high-business impact areas.  

　　Responsibilities

　　Some of the core responsibilities include designing, owning and shipping software, writing secure, reliable, scalable and maintainable code. Syncing with other teams for product features that span across teams and geographies, figuring out dependencies and driving them to completion. You should have a solid understanding of the software development cycle.

　　Successful candidates should have ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies and adopt solution from within the company or from the Open-Source community. In addition, strong problem solving & debugging skills are necessary.

　　Candidate will be regularly participating in on call and reviewing customer feedback.

　　Candidate is expected to make architectural changes in application to make it modernize, performant and reliable.

　　Candidate will be helping other team members by actively working with them and participating in design and code reviews. Candidate will be growing team knowledge with regular knowledge sessions.

　　Qualifications

　　We will be selecting candidates that have the best mix of the following qualifications:

　　10-15 years of professional experience designing, developing, testing, and shipping software.

　　Proficiency in either service (C#, Java, etc.) and web (HTML5 and JavaScript/TypeScript, Webpack, react) technologies.

　　Demonstrated technical aptitude with architecture, design, development, debugging, testing, etc.

　　Strong communication and collaboration skills.

　　BS in computer science, or equivalent in related technical experience.

　　Experience with telemetry, data analytics, and service monitoring a plus (Kusto, Cosmos, Geneva Analytics, etc.).

　　Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .