Job Description

Want to get in at the very beginning of a new effort? Want to work on something important to Microsoft? Want to empower hundreds of millions of people to do more with Microsoft 365?

Our team is defining and building a completely new people-centric platform for Microsoft 365 apps, integrated with M365's most used hubs like Office, Outlook, and Teams. We need your help to shape the future of M365 apps. We need your help to define this new platform. We need your help to enable amazing new experiences for our M365 customers!

You'll be a good fit if you're self-motivated, highly collaborative, and a clear communicator. You have a rare ability to get to the essence of things, an acute attention to detail, and a real passion for enabling developers to create delightful end-user experiences. You love working in an environment with high levels of ambiguity, considerable freedom, and a deep preference towards hands-on implementation. You have experience creating software solutions to problems from scratch. You value getting a job done and making our customers, Microsoft, and the world better, regardless of which team gets the credit.

Imagine having a team whose most important values are respect, curiosity, engineering excellence, fun, and family. If this sounds like your kind of team, we would love to help you live this experience.

Want to get in at the very beginning of a new effort? Want to work on something important to Microsoft? Want to empower hundreds of millions of people to do more with Microsoft 365?

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Our team is defining and building a completely new people-centric platform for Microsoft 365 apps, integrated with M365's most used hubs like Office, Outlook, and Teams. We need your help to shape the future of M365 apps. We need your help to define this new platform. We need your help to enable amazing new experiences for our M365 customers!

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You'll be a good fit if you're self-motivated, highly collaborative, and a clear communicator. You have a rare ability to get to the essence of things, an acute attention to detail, and a real passion for enabling developers to create delightful end-user experiences. You love working in an environment with high levels of ambiguity, considerable freedom, and a deep preference towards hands-on implementation. You have experience creating software solutions to problems from scratch. You value getting a job done and making our customers, Microsoft, and the world better, regardless of which team gets the credit.

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Imagine having a team whose most important values are respect, curiosity, engineering excellence, fun, and family. If this sounds like your kind of team, we would love to help you live this experience.

Responsibilities:

* Participate in the definition of key scenarios, use cases, and end-user experiences
* Explore and understand platform capabilities and limitations across Microsoft and externally
* Design, implement, and refine chosen solutions in close partnership with Product Management and partner teams
* Identify hard problems, evaluate the pros/cons of possible solutions, and drive decision making
* Learn from and collaborate with external developers to identify issues, understand scenarios, and empower them to delight M365 customers
* Become part of a talented team that values diverse ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds
* Contribute to other engineer's growth through code reviews, mentoring, supporting, etc.
* Lead technical projects, mentor others, and model the culture of the team
* Diagnose and correct service and application issues

Basic Qualifications:

6+ years of industry experience in full-stack, front-end, or back-end software development using C, Java, JavaScript, or other high-level programming languages

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related engineering field

Strong problem-solving and algorithm development skills.

Ability to design, architect, and drive the development of large features or functionality

Demonstrated technical leadership experience with excellent technical, cross-group collaboration and communication skills

Proven track record of customer-focused innovation

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with web technologies and knowledge of modern engineering practices like automated deployments with integrated quality gates and experience working with modern version control systems like Git

Knowledge and experiences with the Azure stack, Teams app development, O365 API surface, Microsoft Graph, or Fluid framework

Willing and able to learn modern technologies and open-source components to find the right tool for the job

Passion for developer experiences which enable effective end-user experiences

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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