Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack
Microsoft · Posted Oct 12
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
Microsoft 365 brings together productivity applications and cloud services, and PowerPoint is central to that mission, helping millions of people turn ideas into visually engaging presentations. The PowerPoint organization is hiring engineers to build the future of presentation creation for PowerPoint for the web, combining front-end and back-end technologies with cloud services. As a Senior Software Engineer, the role involves designing and building features, defining technical strategy, driving engineering excellence, and pioneering AI-powered innovations while improving performance and reliability through techniques such as lazy loading, caching, and asynchronous loading.
What you will do
- Design, develop, and improve large-scale system architecture and infrastructure.
- Design and develop complete features and experiences with high quality, evolving the service to scale and having world-class performance and reliability.
- You will be hands-on in implementation, debugging, shipping and mitigating incidents in live production environments.
- Write high quality code, complete with unit and integration tests.
- You will provide mentorship and coaching to team to help them identify and propose relevant solutions.
- Work closely with Product Management and Design disciplines to shape the infrastructure and product.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
- 6+ years of software development experience in C#, C++, .NET, TypeScript, or similar programming languages or platforms
- Proficiency in Data Structures and Algorithms
- Experience building and shipping production grade services.
- Track record of delivering products, features and functionality on time, with extremely high quality
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to work cross- team in collaborative environment.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with agentic engineering and AI-assisted coding across design, implementation, testing, debugging, and code review, with responsible validation and quality practices.
- Experience with Azure Cloud and ADO (Azure DevOps) pipeline is preferred but not required
- Experience with JavaScript/Typescript and HTML5 and familiarity with frameworks like React is a plus.
- Passion for building highly available products at scale.
- Self-driven, pro-active, results-oriented and ability to work with minimal direction
- Experience leading a multi-person team from design through implementation to delivery
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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