Developer Division is an organization focusing on developer tooling and experiences, and application workload experiences. We're looking for a Software Engineer II to join us to develop and deliver the great, consistent and scalable AI tooling products. You will have opportunities to work on AI tooling by leveraging latest Microsoft AI technologies, collaborate with Azure services, meet developers at where they are.

We're passionate about every detail of the end user experience. This includes simplicity of function, automation, performance, reliability and security. We leverage growth mindset on building AI tooling and applications. The right candidate for this role will be motivated to build great software that meets these challenges, also be part of fast-growing AI application and tooling area.

If you feel exciting and comfortable with new AI tooling opportunities and ambiguity of startup projects, are a quick learner, a super collaborator, and highly skilled in design and implementation of full stack tools, services, come talk with us.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop large scale software tools and solutions.

• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.

• Understand AI tooling requirements and design AI tooling solutions for AI developers.

• Develop "best-in-class" engineering system by ensuring that components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.

• Improve test coverage for tools, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.

• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.

• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business 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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience developing enterprise grade software.

• 3+ years of experience building applications and services in the Cloud.

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications

• AI related project experience and knowledge.

• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.

• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.

• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.

• Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.

• Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services.

• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.

• Experience/background in the enterprise space.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure services is helpful

Interpersonal skills

• Growth Mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setback, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.

• Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result.

• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges.

• A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations.

• Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.

• Believe that a team working well together is truly smarter than the single smartest person on that team.

• Aspire to grow as a person, as a teammate, and as an engineer and help others grow.

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