Do you want to work on the systems or solutions that drive the financial workflows and help Microsoft in achieving organization's objectives related to operational effectiveness and efficiency, reliable financial reporting, and compliance with laws, regulations, and policies.? Do you want to work on cutting edge cloud technologies evolving our systems in a modern engineering manner? Do you want to enable customers to leverage the power of AI in processing in their daily work?

If your answer is “YES” to all of them, congratulations! You are a prospective candidate for the software Engineering team in the Commerce Financial Services (CFS) organization in Microsoft.

As we continue along our digital-transformation journey, Microsoft has been looking to AI to reinvent how we do business, by streamlining our operation’s support and adding value to our partners and customers.

In this team, you will have the opportunity to design and develop creative and compelling, solutions in cloud that accomplishes the business outcomes in an automated, timely, cost-effective, compliant, and secure way. You will develop software and services at scale, innovating on the latest technologies and modern engineering practices. Delivery of solutions will be done via a DevOps model where success not only includes delivering business value but having a cost-effective, reliable, stable, and supportable solution. We partner closely with Microsoft product engineering teams to ensure a great solution is delivered that can help our customers around the world and serve as a showcase to industry. To summarize, you will be an integral part of the digital transformation that is happening in Microsoft getting your hands in engineering systems of: observation, intelligence/insights/analytics, recording/reporting, and engagement.

Responsibilities

As a software engineer, you will:

Gain an understanding over time of Microsoft businesses and processes and collaborate with stakeholders to contribute to a cohesive set of capabilities built to deliver a frictionless experience

Design, Implement, Validate, Release components/services/systems using your software engineering (designing, coding, review, testing, debugging, problem solving and analytical) skills in agile team that will measurably add value to our business partners and stakeholders.

Develop designs that are complete from a usability, reliability, security, performance, scale, maintainability, extensibility, and built-with-ops-as-first class aspects for the different components/services/system(s) in a cloud world.

Participate in On Call and Site Reliability rotations to support live site and drive engineered solutions to improve customer experiences.

Work in a modern DevOps culture, administering your service in Azure, implementing infrastructure as code, automating manual operations processes, and supporting/ troubleshooting production live site incidents

Design and implement accurate and actionable monitoring to maintain business Service Level Agreements and system health

Mentor your team members, pair program, participate in code reviews, and delegate work to encourage professional and technical growth of those around you

Be constantly learning, evaluating both existing and emerging technologies, delivering POCs and evaluating needs for service modernization and enhancements

Collaborate with other teams and disciplines and drive improvements in engineering across our organization

Learn with and as appropriate, lead the team in adopting relevant new technologies, tools, methods, and processes that progressively advances our services’ capabilities to its different stakeholders.

Provide critical thinking, technical innovation, and attention to detail while serving as a trusted advisor in the organization. Gain understanding of Microsoft businesses and the varied processes along with their outcomes and collaborate with all stakeholders to contribute to a cohesive set of capabilities built to deliver frictionless experience.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

BS/MS in Computer Science, or similar discipline, or equivalent industry experience

Overall 2+ development and test automation experience

Preferred Qualifications 

Customer engagement experience

Experience with Agile software development methodologies

Experience to work in an agile development team

Experience with Agile software development methodologies

Strong skills in designing, implementing, and testing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), REST APIs & micro services

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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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