If you love writing quality code and learning new technologies, enjoy thinking about challenging engineering problems, working directly with customers and, above all, if you’re excited to join a team of others to do the same, then we’d like to hear from you.

The Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) team is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers looking to leverage the latest technologies to address their toughest challenges and transform their industries using cloud-based solutions. We work side-by-side with our customers to collaboratively innovate custom solutions tailored to solve their challenges. In the process, we help shape the future of our own platforms by partnering with our product groups to improve them, making contributions to open source and make our platforms easier to adopt.

Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world! 

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our software engineering projects to deliver well-defined products that generate immediate customer value and deliver high-quality, broadly applicable code.
• Collaborate with customers’ developers to deliver solutions using a wide range of technologies
• Continuously build your technical knowledge and mentor junior team members to drive excellence in engineering as a cohesive, efficient, and productive unit
• In CSE, the Senior software engineering role is 80% hands-on and rest will be focusing on architecture & design, upskilling and mentoring the team
• Exhibiting our core values of accountability, integrity, and respect every day.

Qualifications

We are seeking people who have experiences which reflect the qualifications below: 

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience shipping or running production systems and/or software, including complex production systems that run on a public cloud
• Inclusive, collaborative and growth-mindset approach
• Strong verbal and written communication ability including fluency in English
• This role requires you to be permanently located within the UK, have at least 5 years UK residency, and either have or are willing to apply for, UK national security vetting to SC (Security Check) level
• You should be willing to work with Defence and Intelligence customers

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong service delivery experience including architecture and coding
• We do not require deep expertise in all software stacks that customers use. However, we do look for technical acumen in a mix of open-source and Microsoft based cloud and expertise on one software stack (and preferably more)
• Experience working within geographically dispersed, diverse, and virtual teams
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or comparable practical professional experience.
• Prior experience in Government or related industries would be helpful but not required.
• Enjoy travel and are comfortable with regional travel up to 25%

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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