Senior Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft Teams brings people together by making it easy, productive and fun to communicate and collaborate! Microsoft Teams is the hub where the power and capabilities of M365 come together - Chat, Calling, Meetings, Files, Bots, 3rd Party integrations and more. It is built on top of latest, industry standard technology stack and frameworks. 

This is an opportunity to lead a fast-paced, high-impact foundational project with cutting edge technology.

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager in the Meeting Collaboration team, you will be responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing project execution, including ensuring that they are completed within timelines. You will be mentoring and coaching the team, having a vital role in the professional development of the team members, providing guidance, support, and feedback to help engineers grow in their careers.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in management or team leadership roles, demonstrating the ability to lead and influence across teams. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.  
• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.   
• Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.   
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes. 
• Ability to create an inclusive and fun work environment where every employee engages effectively. 

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to set the product strategy for some of the highest impact or most critical services or products. 
• Creates strategic roadmap for the system architecture by considering the long-term evolution of related systems and sets new direction for architecture and processes. 
• Establishes a culture for producing extensible and maintainable code, to identify and address coding issues, and to value effective code reviews for some of the highest impact or most critical services or products. 
• Establishes planning processes that are flexible and adaptable to accurately assess progress towards timely completion of long-term goals for some of the highest impact or most critical services or products, in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers). 
• Creates a strategy to ensure that responses to incidences are appropriate by balancing short-term and long-term tradeoffs of resource investment as well as strategic needs of the product or service. 
• Creates and drives a culture for creating high-quality products, and continuously integrating and deploying code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and efficient runtime across multiple of the highest impact or most critical products or services.