Jobs

Scholarships

Courses

Companies

Placements

Community

Home >

Jobs >

Senior Software Engineer - Word team

Senior Software Engineer - Word team

1 Hour ago • 4 Years + • Full Stack Development • Undisclosed

About the job

8 skills required for this role

Add these skills to join the top 1% applicants for this job

react

javascript

typescript

front-end

data-analytics

communication

scalability

rendering

Job Description

Microsoft's Word team in Serbia seeks a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the next generation of Word's layout engine. This role involves designing, developing, and delivering software improvements focused on reliability, scalability, performance, security, and efficiency. Responsibilities include participating in code reviews, bug triage, supporting production services (including on-call duties), and driving feature development for large-scale services. The ideal candidate possesses strong software engineering fundamentals, expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript, experience with React or Vue, and a passion for web full-stack development. The position offers opportunities for mentorship, technical growth, and collaboration within international teams.

Must have:

4+ years software development experience
2+ years team mentoring
Strong software engineering fundamentals
Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript
Experience with React or Vue
Understanding of DOM and browser rendering

Perks:

Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Networking opportunities

Overview

Come join Microsoft Word to work on state-of-the-art services, platforms, distributed systems, user experiences, and modern technology to deliver the next generation of productivity experiences used by hundreds of millions of users. We are looking for Senior Software Engineer who can help us further grow our products, business, and culture!

At Microsoft Word team in Microsoft Development Center Serbia (MDCS), our focus is driving the next phase of Word layout engine, a core aspect of how Word documents are visualized and interacted with across devices. We are looking for creative and driven software engineers with passion for web full stack development to achieve our vision of redefining the future of documents across all platforms and devices.

Software Engineer position provides an opportunity to be at the forefront of technology, with a supportive environment for building skills for designing commercial grade software at scale. Additionally, it is an opportunity to work with some of the best experts in the field and will provide an opportunity for long-term technical and non-technical growth and career path.

Qualifications

BSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related disciplines or equivalent practical experience in software engineering industry
4+ years of software development experience in a product group
2+ years guiding and mentoring a team of engineers
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including coding, software design, problem solving, and data analysis skills
Understanding of software engineering principles, with experience developing and driving features and experiences for large-scale services or customer-facing web applications
Proficiency with TypeScript or JavaScript
Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React or Vue
Solid understanding of DOM and browser rendering pipeline
Passion and motivation for technology, with solid problem-solving skills
Passion for growth, doing new things, and learning from others and own mistakes
Written and verbal English communication skills

Responsibilities

Design, produce and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, efficiency, etc. of a service, having independence, sense of ownership and drive for areas of ownership
Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals
Contribute to fixing, enhancing, and supporting our services in production, including periodic on-call duties where necessary
Ensuring that design empowers other developers to achieve more, while effectively leveraging components developed by other teams
Driving features, projects, and open-ended problems towards resolution
Take initiative to identify and fix bottlenecks, proactively come up with the proposals for further improvements of the system, process and owned product
Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment, provide technical guidance to other engineers and act as mentor
Work with international teams within Microsoft