Software Engineer (Full-stack)

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.

About the team and the role:

Microsoft’s vision is to democratize AI to enable every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. In Taiwan, the Microsoft AI R&D Center is working on various projects to foster the application of AI in local industries and address the challenges our customers face. In particular, the Azure Multimodal Intelligence (MMI) team is driving the development of various cognitive services, including optical character recognition (OCR), document understanding, computer vision and related fields in multimodal intelligence.

We strive to build the best in-class hosted cloud and on-prem solutions leveraging deep learning to empower businesses to automate document processing intelligently using AI. Come join a creative and dedicated team of engineers. We are looking for talent people wanting to have first-hand experience in building compliant, secure, reliable, highly-available and high-performance AI products serving millions of requests worldwide. 

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As a Software Engineer, you will develop software, tools and code to be used in support of design, infrastructure, and technology platforms as well as commercial or end-user applications. This opportunity will allow you to create and implement extensible and maintainable code for a product, service, or feature. You will partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. You will collaborate with others to create a clear and articulated plan for testing, assuring quality of solutions, while applying knowledge of debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues. This opportunity will allow you to learn about customer scaling requirements and the application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations, while ensuring the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.

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 with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work full-stack and develop frontend side components is a plus.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly preferred:
  • Build complex single-page applications from scratch using React, Angular, or Vue.
  • Write automated tests (e.g. Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape)
  • Solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (e.g. how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
  • Solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.
  • Experience in designing secure, scalable and cost-efficient services on the Microsoft Azure platform or equivalent cloud platform
  • Experience with Live Site monitoring and operating in DevOps environment.
• Strong team player with the ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively, demonstrating a results-driven mindset. Enthusiastic about customer needs and deliver features align with their requirements. Deep passion for customers, design thinking, data analysis and technology

• Learn to review and break down work items into tasks with stakeholder collaboration, provide estimations, and escalate delays, while also supporting feature deployments to customers, considering user and service impacts, and adhering to best deployment practices for safety.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define feature requirements, integrate feedback to enhance design, and establish feedback loops for continuous improvement based on customer metrics.
• Learn and apply coding standards and best practices through code reviews, developing maintainable and extensible code with guidance. Utilize debugging tools to proactively and reactively address issues in product features, ensuring code quality and reliability.
• Support the identification of dependencies and design documentation for product features, learn about system interactions and back-end dependencies, and contribute to architectural processes under guidance. Produce code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assist with technical validation efforts.
• Collaborate on quality assurance plans, augment test cases, and integrate automation into testing, while understanding the implications of security and compliance in system architecture. Contribute to data analysis and feedback integration for product engineering decisions, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for monitoring and restoring system functionality within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Participate in live service operations, and support telemetry data integration for system behavior insights, with a focus on performance, reliability, and safety.
• Develop and apply best practices for reliable code building, understand global and local regulations, customer scaling requirements, and support communication with key partners across Microsoft for user experience enhancement and partner needs.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards, leverage developer tools for code creation and debugging, contribute to automation in production and deployment, and proactively seek knowledge to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance at scale.