Senior Software Engineer, AI - Microsoft Corporation

Are you looking for an opportunity to impact millions of users every day? Are you excited that your code runs on billions of devices, that your contribution brings smile to every face? Will you accept the challenge to empower every user using the technologies that we're going to build together? It is no secret that digital payment solutions are already an integral part of everyday digital life. Here at Microsoft, we're building the best consumer payment experiences and AI agentic workflow for Copilot on PC, mobile and wherever Copilot users go. We leverage huge amounts of payment information to grow an open ecosystem of creators, merchants, services, and payment providers. We are building the next generation experience and technology platform that enables consumers, businesses, and institutions to unlock the value of digital assets. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI - to support the Microsoft payment team, where you will have the chance to design and implement software development kits (SDK) as well as cloud services that leverage state-of-the-art technologies, work with internal and external partner team to build the experience across PC and mobile, while maintaining the security, privacy, and compliance of customers data handling on a daily basis. You'll also engage directly with customers to learn and improve constantly, so there's always room to learn and grow. Together we'll build on top of a solid foundation componentized and reusable software, that brings delight to customers' payment experience and empowers them to reach the full potential of enriched digital life. 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. **Responsibilities** - Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. - Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. - Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). - Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. - Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. - Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. - Play a key role in shaping our software architecture that provides measurable customer value. - Understand both technology and business to know the right tradeoffs to make. - Work closely with your peers, managers, product, design, and operations teams to create solutions that meet business requirements. - Drive engineering and operational excellence across the product. - Collaborate with other engineers to surface common pain points, develop solutions and evangelize best practices. Other + Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture) **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 PythonOR equivalent experience. + 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building customer-facing desktop, web and/or mobile applications. **?Preferred Qualifications** + 4+ years of working experience in large scale system architecture, design, development, testing, and release, including but not limited to web applications, microservices in layers, database design, API design, performance tuning, telemetry design and analysis. + Demonstrated programming skills and knowledge of architectural patterns for large, high-scale applications. + Full-stack developer with good skills in JavaScript, Typescript, AngularJS, ReactJS, Ruby, RoR, HTML5, ExpressJS, CSS/SCSS, Linux, C# and .Net. + Familiarity with Native Windows/Mobile development will be a great plus. + Excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with demonstrated testing, debugging and analytical skills. + Experience with distributed databases, transaction semantics/management, and indexing systems. + Experience of leading big initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence product roadmap. + Data-driven mindset. Ability to analyze data and persuade your team using effective analysis. Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 will accept applications for the role until October 21, 2024. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .