Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Job Overview

Location
London, England
Job Type
Full Time Job
Job ID
28391
Date Posted
1 year ago
Recruiter
John Apl
Job Views
37

Job Description

We are looking for exceptional technical leaders to build a browser for the next 100M users. The team owns the One Microsoft PDF stack, delivers PDF experiences, Reading View, Translate, Read Out Loud, Web Capture and Annotations and Learning Tools amongst other key innovations. 

 

We expect you to leverage your expertise, drive technical strategy, incubate innovations, implement early prototypes, conduct architectural explorations, evaluate architecture approaches, alternatives, and tradeoffs, drive product requirements. You should have a great sense of customer empathy, rely on data driven decision making, have a passion for disruptive new ideas and enjoy driving innovation while balancing focused execution. We are looking for an architect who embraces the cultural values of inclusion and belonging. If you’re ready to work on the cutting-edge client and services innovation that will enable 10x growth in adoption and engagement and serve millions of people who will use them every day as they browse the web, this is the role for you.  

 

Are you an amazing engineer with penchant for taking up big problems and hard challenges?  Do you enjoy the thrill and energy of a startup, challenges of cutting-edge innovations, coupled with engineering rigor? Would you like to be part of an agile, learning, empowered, energetic and collaborative team? Do you believe in clean design, crafted implementation, being meticulous about quality, obsessing about the customer and innovating daily? The extensive reach of Edge coupled with building delightful everyday experiences on a range of devices offers exceptional opportunities of independent ownership, working on cutting edge technologies and professional growth. 

 

Come join a team of highly motivated developers working on Microsoft Edge!   We are looking for an individual with high standards of excellence to join our engineering team to build amazing experiences that are robust, fast, and seamless. The ideal candidate is skilled at design and implementation, able to and own large architectural designs and collaborate well across multiple partner teams. 

Responsibilities

 

Responsibilities 

  • Be a great technical leader for the team and broader organization. You will be working with a very technical diverse team of between 5 and 8 developers and expected to provide technical direction 
  • Capable of designing and implementing large feature areas, working in the code, guiding the team, and understanding at a detailed level how the software works 
  • Architect robust scalable software designs, own technical strategy, have an informed opinion about how the software should evolve and ability to land your design with high quality and on time 
  • Rigorous quality engineering practices across all phases of product development and deployment 
  • Create layered, componentized, testable, interface-based designs ensuring a robust high-quality implementation and crafted end-user experiences 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

  • 12+ years of professional industry experience working on large projects 
  • A BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline  
  • Excellent design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills 
  • Ability to design performant, highly usable, scalable, world-ready, accessible software 
  • Ability to create layered, componentized, testable, interface-based designs 
  • Consistent track record of shipping compelling technologies 

 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Experience in C++ or Windows development 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills  
  • Effective collaboration skills driving changes at scale 
  • Experience in Machine Learning, Data Driven Engineering or Agile Development is a plus 
  • Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web technologies is a plus  
  • Experience with Windows architecture and internals is a plus 

Job ID: 28391

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