Do you want to work on a product which touches and transforms the lives of billions of people across the globe? Are you someone who is passionate about bringing customer obsession and engineering craftsmanship into the product you build? Are you looking to work on large scale websites building a compelling user experience and the frameworks behind the experiences?

The People Also Ask team is hiring a full stack developer who can help us build the next generation backend and frontend experiences that would delight our customers.

As a software engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing, coding, and owning software and services to enable high performant, delightful web sites and applications. You will be engineering these solutions while enabling solid engineering practices including CICD, automation tooling and telemetry insights across our web sites. You will be working in a collaborative and fun environment with peers across disciplines including PMs, designers, developers, and scientists.

About WebXT:

WebXT organization in Microsoft has the mission of “Make the web work for you”. This team is comprised of several thousand software engineers working on Bing search, Edge browser, Maps, Ads, News, and other projects. Over the years we have developed deep technical expertise in various areas – Machine learning, NLP, speech, computer vision, large scale deployments and continue to innovate and delight customers across 236 regions, 106 languages and with half a billion users.  Please watch this  short video on our team which will give you an insight on why you should join us.

The WebXT Team in Hyderabad, is part of Microsoft’s India Development Centre(IDC) in Hyderabad (and home offices at cities across the country for the time being). The team is responsible for driving the overall strategy in search and AI Platforms – spanning consumer and enterprise customers. The team’s constant endeavor is to nurture an innovative, inclusive culture to enable one to build finely crafted Search & AI products and grow to be a leader. It is home to one of the largest groups of machine learning and AI talent, not just in IDC, but all of India. â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹ Please visit our Instagram page   (@lifeatstci)  to get a peek into our culture.

Responsibilities

• Obsession about customer experience
• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable and always available services which deliver delightful and finely crafted user experiences on Bing.
• Collaborate with different teams across discipline to achieve the above.
• Analyze risks and compromises with various design choices
• Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
• Identify and fix or drive fixes systemic issues.

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 4+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with building web experiences and knowing the web technologies
• Experience on .net and modern UX technologies such as react/angular, nodeJS.
• Hands on experience with CSS, typescript/JS and C#
• Excellent software design and coding skills and understanding of OO concepts.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills. 
• Great analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence.
• Passion for new technologies, quality, and customer satisfaction
• Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems.
• Firm sense of accountability and ownership for end-to-end project lifecycle.
• Experience with GIT.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship.

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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