Senior Software Engineer - Word Web Team (Office Product Group)

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

5d

About The Position

The Word team believes that beauty and simplicity don’t have to conflict with power. We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about blending all three to craft empowering experiences our customers will crave.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to focus on direct user interaction and experience, for both content and chrome on Word Web. You’ll work with an experienced team of engineers across a breadth of technical problems: complex document layout, tuning browser performance, and high-level modern asynchronous collaboration experiences. You’ll work in a customer-focused, hypothesis-driven fashion with multiple partner teams across Office, leveraging both quantitative and qualitative data to ensure we’re building experiences customers need and love.
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.

Requirements

• 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, HTML, TypeScript, CSS, C, C++, C# or JavaScript.
• OR equivalent experience.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, HTML, TypeScript, CSS, C, C++, C# or JavaScript.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, HTML, TypeScript, CSS, C, C++, C# or JavaScript.
• OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of industry experience designing, developing, testing/debugging, and shipping software.
• 2+ years experience with web technologies such as:HTML5 and JavaScript/TypeScript/ C#.
• Experience working directly with performance optimization for Web applications
• Experience working in cross-team and cross-functional environments, demonstrating effective collaboration and communication skills to achieve shared goals.
• Ability to demonstrate a growth mindset and adapt quickly by learning and applying new skills effectively.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate ownership of features by taking the feature from proposal stage to shipping it to production in a secure manner.
• Refactor existing code in a secure manner with high quality.
• You will use data and experiments to inform decisions, validate conclusions, and debug issues.
• Solve complex problems, including breaking them down into smaller manageable parts and executing the smaller parts efficiently.
• You will write secure, reliable, scalable, accessible, performant and maintainable code, and effectively debug, test, and support it.
• Demostrate continuous learning such as areas of code, features, etc., and share those learnings with others around you to grow the capacity of the entire team or apply those learnings in the project at hand.
• Mentor others, including assistance navigating complexities or providing technical guidance.
• Embody our Culture and Values

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees