What is Viva?
Microsoft is embarking on a new effort to address the growing needs of employees around the world. We are building a product suite designed to address the fundamental shift in how people work, build their career, and find meaning in their workplace.
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 dedicated to examining the employee journey and delivering software and services to make it better.
What is Viva Glint?
Viva Glint is a premier employee engagement platform, working with over 1,000 leading companies in more than 150 countries to improve the health of organizations through real-time employee feedback. Glint blends AI technology and people science to power predictive insights that help human resources, leaders, and managers quickly make sense of engagement data, connect insight with outcomes, and take meaningful action.
Today’s employees are looking to be part of an inclusive and supportive culture, inspired by their leaders, and connected to their work and each other. Companies that excel at understanding the needs of their people, and enable their managers to respond in meaningful ways, see 2.5 times higher profit, 3 times lower attrition, and 3 times lower burnout.
The Glint product recently joined Microsoft as part of the Employee Experience (EXP) organization, which includes Viva Glint, Viva Learning, a new Viva module in development, and the Viva Horizontals teams. We 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 employees around the world. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and high energy. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds, and values passion for serving our customers. Our team has a sense of accountability and provides its members with opportunities for learning and career growth.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer (Applications- Viva Glint) to architect and build scalable and performant applications using engineering best practices. You are truly passionate about software engineering, with an emphasis on agile development grounded in data driven customer innovation and you can empathize with our end-users’ needs and want to engage to help define their key experiences. You will closely work with other engineers, managers, product, design and operations teams to create solutions that meet business requirements. You will drive engineering and operational excellence in Viva Glint and collaborate with other engineers to surface common pain points, develop solutions and evangelize best practices. You will also support, mentor and help other engineers in the team.
Location: By applying to this U.S. based position, while remote work is possible, relocation does not apply/is not provided for the role.
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years Software design and development experience in backend technologies; Java, C, C#, C++ or other object-oriented programming languages
o OR equivalent experience.
Additional/Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated profiency in coding and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
- Experience building web services using Java and mySQL, covering all stages of the release cycle
- Demonstarted technical, cross group collaboration and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, adapt to acquire new knowledge and skills, effectively solve complex problems
- Demonstrated debugging and troubleshooting skills, with an enthusiastic attitude to support and resolve customer problems
- Experience building large high-scale microservices, with service-oriented development and cloud-based systems
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 .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Deliver a high-quality, highly available service that meets customer SLAs (Service Level Agreement) across the globe
- Drive long-term design thinking for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets
- Deliver value through a collaborative approach spanning many teams across geographies
- Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning
- Be a role model for an open, honest and inclusive approach to problem solving
- Embody our culture and values