Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leads efforts to optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leads efforts for creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, interprets results, and decides on next steps or ship decision from results.
• Identifies and applies best practices and shares information with other engineers to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods while also applying best practices for new code development.
• Partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios and leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
• Creates proposals for architecture and design documents and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Typescript, or Python.
• 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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