Senior Software Engineering Lead
Senior Software Engineer
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization
on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in
which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a
mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across
our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in
this world.
Senior Software
Engineering Lead – Africa Development Center
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Job
Type: Full Time
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Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
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Experience: 3 – 7 years
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Location: Nairobi
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Job
Field: ICT / Computer
The Identity engineering team builds and manages Microsoft’s online
identity providers for all of Microsoft’s online services and platforms like
Azure, Office, Xbox, and HoloLens. We boldly pursue big ideas that power
transformational advances in online security and user management. Our work
spans both the consumer and enterprise space and can be found in internet scale
online services, the Windows operating system and most phones and handheld
devices. Identity engineering employees have deep technical expertise, customer
insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, very
large-scale experience. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts,
digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.
We are seeking experienced and passionate software engineers to
help grow a team focused on the Microsoft Graph integration of Azure Active
Directory, delivering innovative solutions to support Microsoft Identity
Platform’s growing app ecosystem. The team is energetic, passionate, and works
together like a family to create and ship these new capabilities and
cutting-edge technologies.
Also, our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and
inclusion and is clearly reflected in all of things we do. Diversity is more
than a commitment for us – it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a
strong sense of accountability and provides its members many opportunities for
learning and career growth.
We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence,
transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to
apply to learn more!
Responsibilities
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Lead a team that will be involved in
design and development of large scale distributed software services and
solutions
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Adhere to and drive modern software
engineering practices through design reviews
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System design through well-defined
interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry
to make decisions
·
Develop “best-in-class” engineering
for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are:
well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored
and reusable.
·
Improve test coverage for services,
organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas
·
Considers testability,
portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when
code is ready to be shared and delivered
·
Exposes test coverage issues,
organizes and implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas
·
Gain a working understanding of
Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to
contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users
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Focus on customer/partner needs
through a data driven approach
·
Troubleshoot and optimize automation,
reliability and monitoring for LiveSite
Qualifications
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7+ years of software development and
design experience
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3+ years of experience in managing a
large software engineering team
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer
Science, Computer Information Systems, Math, Engineering or related field, or
completion of a Code/Developer academy program
·
Experience with one or more general
purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#,
.NET
·
Experience in open-source software
development
How to Apply
Senior Software Engineer
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization
on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in
which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a
mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across
our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in
this world.
(Senior) Software Engineer- Africa
Development Center
·
Job
Type: Full Time
·
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
·
Location: Nairobi
·
Job
Field: ICT / Computer
The Identity Engineering team builds and manages Microsoft’s
online identity providers for all of Microsoft’s online services and platforms
like Azure, Office, Xbox, and HoloLens. We boldly pursue big ideas that power
transformational advances in online security and user management. Our work
spans both the consumer and enterprise space and can be found in internet scale
online services, the Windows operating system and most phones and handheld
devices. Identity engineering employees have deep technical expertise, customer
insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, very
large-scale experience. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital
transformation change agents, and customer advocates.
We are seeking experienced and passionate Software Engineers to
help grow a team focused on the Microsoft Graph integration of Azure Active
Directory, delivering innovative solutions to support Microsoft Identity
Platform’s growing app ecosystem. The team is energetic, passionate, and works
together like a family to create and ship these new capabilities and
cutting-edge technologies.
Also, our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion
and is clearly reflected in all of things we do. Diversity is more than a
commitment for us – it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a strong
sense of accountability and provides its members many opportunities for
learning and career growth.
We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence,
transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to
apply to learn more!
Responsibilities
·
Design and develop large scale
distributed software services and solutions
·
Adhere to and drive modern software
engineering practices through design reviews
·
System design through well-defined
interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry
to make decisions
·
Develop “best-in-class” engineering
for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are:
well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored
and reusable.
·
Improve test coverage for services,
organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas
·
Considers testability,
portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when
code is ready to be shared and delivered
·
Exposes test coverage issues,
organizes and implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas
·
Gain a working understanding of
Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to
contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users
·
Focus on customer/partner needs
through a data driven approach
Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for LiveSite
Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for LiveSite
Qualifications
·
Significant years of software
development and design experience
·
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer
Science, Computer Information Systems, Math, Engineering or related field, or
completion of a Code/Developer academy program
·
Experience with one or more general
purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#,
.NET
·
Experience in open-source software
development
How to Apply