Software Engineer
MicrosoftRedmondUpdate time: November 27,2019
Job Description

Are you a current or former Ada Academy Program Participant:  If yes, are you ready for the opportunity to make a billion people more productive with Software? Do you have the right skills to write and maintain services? 

 

The EDGE group under the E&D team is looking for candidates who can think broadly, collaborate well, pick up and contribute to a broad range of technologies, and generally want to have fun, enabling enterprise customers to leverage technology to be their most efficient and effective in their business.  This exciting team is focused on building a world-class machine teaching platform to enable developers with no machine learning expertise to build custom classifiers and extractors for text, images or speech signals.

 

Responsibilities

Successful candidates will exhibit various attributes that will enhance their ability to succeed in these different positions. 

  • Collaboration - As most development is about working with others, both within an immediate team, as well as across business units and portions of the company, and ability to collaborate effectively is a core competency to have.
  • Customer Focus - A focus on delivering customer value and being able to tie engineering decisions and actions to that value directly is a massive plus for successful engineers at any level.
  • Drive for Results - Being able to drive for results, not merely finding the boundary of your responsibility, but following a problem through to its conclusion, to solve it once and for all is a skill and ability which a successful engineer should exhibit.

Qualifications

  

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

 

  • Recently successfully graduated from the Ada Academy or is currently attending the Ada Academy

 

  • Must have prior experience in a software engineering environment

 

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years after that.

 

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

 

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