Viva Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is embarking on a new effort to address the growing need for employee experience worldwide. Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in the flow of work. We are building a product suite designed to address the fundamental shift in how people learn and grow in their workplace. We are looking for team members who are excited to join us on this journey to enable organizations to foster a culture that empowers people and teams to be their best from anywhere. Employee engagement is undergoing a fundamental shift in response to economic, demographic, and societal changes. People want to be excited about their work, be connected to their company culture, understand how to succeed, and feel supported across a spectrum of onboarding, skilling, coaching and mentoring. Our team is committed to examining the employee journey and delivering software and services to improve it.

We are looking for a Viva Senior Software Engineer to come help us build enterprise scale distributed services that serve as a catalyst to Viva suite’s success. You will be responsible for owning and building org-wide new initiatives and horizontal features that span multiple modules in the Microsoft Viva Product Suite. The Viva Employee Experience Platform team is run as a start-up, encouraging team members to share a sense of “founderism”. Team members engage directly with customers, iterate rapidly, and focus on solving the needs of users around the world. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds, and values passion for serving our customers. We value accountability and provide team members with opportunities for learning and career growth.

If all of this sounds exciting to you, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:

  • Design and deliver experiences from incubation to maturity stages that prioritize customer trust and user delight.
  • Serve as a role model for engineers in your team.
  • Work with partners and customers to make architecture decisions and create clarity.
  • Develop and release new modules and horizontal features for the Viva Product Suite
  • Work with our product and design team to implement intuitive and engaging user experiences.
  • Define and build systems and strategies to ensure quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability

Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated experience in architecting and developing robust and extensible solutions at enterprise scale

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience with C#, C++, Java, Python, or equivalent programming language.
  • 7+ years of demonstratable software development experience.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and high levels of ambiguity.
  • Demonstrated technical abilities around design, coding, rapid prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving
  • Excellent verbal, written and cross-group collaboration and communication skills
  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent field experience
  • Experience working with distributed systems/microservices architectures
  • Ability to work on cross-platform code
  • Commitment to deliver the best experience for customers

Software Engineering IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 – $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 – $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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