Bigpark is looking for a Software Engineer 2 who is passionate about creating and improving photos experiences. In this role, you will build new, best-in-class photos experiences on Windows 11 and across the Microsoft ecosystem. 
 
This role is in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Bigpark is part of the Office Media Group inside the Experiences + Devices division of Microsoft. Bigpark has a history of creating showcase experiences for Microsoft Office, OneDrive, Windows, and Xbox.  
  
We are a diverse team of developers, creatives, data scientists, and program managers, working together to deliver a full spectrum of software and services from vision and incubation through to software development, customer delivery, and service operations.  
  
We have a great studio culture that includes internal conferences (engineering, Microsoft tech stack, and data science), three hack weeks a year for your own side projects, regular culture events, multiple clubs that organize events for people to socialize (board games! mountain bikers!), and lots of people to test your foosball and ping pong skills against (good luck!). At Microsoft, there are as many ways of working as there are employees. As a company, we value and support flexibility as part of our hybrid workplace where every employee can do their best work by working the way they work best.   

Responsibilities

In this role, your primary responsibility will be building experiences and features in the realm of photos. You can write clean and efficient code quickly and confidently. We value craftsmanship, passion for quality, being customer obsessed and a creative thinker.   
  
Success will require teamwork and collaboration with a highly skilled cross-functional team. You will help drive the key features of the products and applications and are able to own a feature from design to implementation. You are comfortable having your code reviewed and reviewing the code of others. You know how to strike a balance between performance, quality, and speed of development. 

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience designing, coding, and troubleshooting
• Professional experience programming in a strongly typed, compiled language (C++, C#, Java) 
• Great partnership, communication, and coordination skills  
• 1+ years of experience building interactive UI-based applications
• Bachelor’s degree Computer Science, related discipline, or equivalent work experience   

Preferred Qualifications 

• Excited with the prospect of working in large codebases  
• Familiarity with modern version control systems like Git 
• Enthusiasm for optimizing code for the best possible performance  
• Agile methodology experience  
• Amateur photographer / fan of photography / photos enthusiast   

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