Office 365 is the locomotive that is driving the growing Microsoft valuation, and critical to the future of the company. Substrate is the set of intelligent, high value services and compliant environment that is enabling the next generation of transformative end-user experiences for Office and the entire company. To deliver on our mission to empower people and organizations to achieve more, we need to create beautiful and intuitive user experiences and are seeking a skilled developer. You will collaborate on and negotiate your designs across our partner engineering teams and work closely with our PMs to design, build, and maintain an extensible set of features that will lay the foundation for our customers. The position is full-time and based in our Nairobi office. Responsibilitie 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 Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for production systems Qualifications Bachelors, Masters, or PHD in computer science, engineering or equivalent 5+ years of software development experience with C#, ReactJs or Java Working in agile teams with strong customer focus Good communication and cross group collaboration skills Experience in Azure, Exchange, or other cloud and distributed systems is a plus Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
