Do you want to be part of a customer-obsessed team that works on some of the largest online web experiences in the world? Our experiences are the first thing hundreds of millions of people see in over fifty markets around the world. We reach people on all major platforms and device types. If you've used the Edge New Tab Page (NTP), msn.com, Xbox NTP, or MSN Chrome Extension, you've seen our work. Our goal is to provide the most relevant, personal news in an instant. We also help people get where they want to go via experiences like search and Top Sites. Delivering these experiences at scale requires relentless focus on experimentation, performance, and availability. Microsoft News is constantly evolving and adopting modern technologies like React, Redux, and Service Fabric. We run a healthy mix of lean and agile processes with an emphasis on rapid delivery of high-quality releases. We are looking for a hands-on developer with solid web development skills who can contribute to the architecture
The role is in the Quality/Fundamentals engineering team. While you should be curious about data and how to extract valuable and useful information from telemetry, you'll be coding/building experiences around search and other features that continue to build on our migration to modern web stack technologies. As a member of the team you will: Code backend and UX features Process vast amounts of data and analyze real user metrics from telemetry Contribute to improvements in livesite issues (granular reporting, deeper monitoring, automatic detection, reduced time-to-mitigate, etc.)
Required Qualifications: S. in Computer Science or equivalent 2 + years of experience in software development Experience working through the full product cycle from initial design to rapid production deployment Experience shipping web based software products Strong partnership, communication and coordination skills Strong computational problem-solving skills, ability to deal with ambiguity, and exceedingly high level of creativity and inquisitiveness Experience with JavaScript, ASP.NET MVC, React, Redux, C#, and Azure is a plus. Preferred: Strong written and oral communication skills Experience