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Do you want to work in an environment that will enable you to impact billions of lives through your work? Do you want to be part of a culture that celebrates diversity and out-of-the-box thinking? Then look no further than the Microsoft Teams Messaging team in Microsoft Development Center Prague.

At Microsoft our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As a software engineer at Microsoft, you will be encouraged to come forward with ideas and continue to foster collaborative environments that empower our colleagues to showcase their brilliance.

Microsoft Teams is core to Microsoft's vision for intelligent communications and collaboration. We are fast becoming THE hub for teamwork in Office 365 with hundreds of thousands of organizations and hundreds of millions of users across the globe using Teams.

The Microsoft Teams Messaging team covers the core communications of the product. This impactful team has a tight culture, large areas of impact and growth, and covers everything from user facing features to fundamentals/perf/memory aspects. We aspire to continue building first-in-class communication and collaboration platforms. You can be part of the team innovating in this space that creates new opportunities for collaboration and supports our hybrid work model for customers.

Responsibilities

• You have the experience in software to know how to push the limits and proactively bring forward new ideas.

• You are comfortable in object-oriented languages, and you have a solid grasp of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns. You have working experience with React and Typescript, or with JavaScript and are willing to learn TypeScript.  

• You collaborate well - you can explain your work, you can ask good questions, you can listen to your peers, and your customers, and you like to give and receive feedback. You like to collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering international teams across multiple geographies to build new features.

• You’re a professional engineer - you understand that it’s not enough to write code that works; it also must be well-designed, easy to test, accessible, and easy to add to over time. You are looking forward to leveraging the existing knowledge, best practices and documentation to build your solutions.

• You love building beautiful apps and crafting the best user experience. For you, an app isn't working correctly until it feels great to use.

• You want to learn to get things done – you do anything it takes to implement your feature end to end, may it require you to dive into native code, learn a new language or implement a small change on a backend service.

• You set the course – you discover important work that may not be obvious to others and get it done with the help of the team.

• You are passionate about analyzing how your features are performing in production to learn and make the product better.

• You’re ready to mentor, pair, participate in code reviews, and delegate work to encourage the professional and technical growth of those around you.

• You care about others’ growth and mentor junior team members professionally to help realize their full potential.

Qualifications

• You have designed and delivered applications that are performant, reliable, accessible, and secure for millions of users  

• You have deep experience with HTML/CSS, React, JavaScript/Typescript, Apollo and GraphQL or similar technologies 

• Your apps are instrumented, in addition to using analytics and A/B testing to drive features  

• You are familiar with Agile, frequent app releases and modern software development lifecycle  

• You are enthusiastic about partnering and working collaboratively with local and global teams across Microsoft, and also in the Open Source community. 

• You teach others the things you know and learn from others 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .