Software Engineer II

Do you want to help us revolutionize how Microsoft measures, monitors, and manages its $140B business portfolio? Are you excited about designing and building cutting-edge user experiences and analytics platforms that tackle real-world challenges, enhance productivity, and drive impactful decision-making? As a Software Engineer II, you'll play a key role in creating next-generation applications and modernizing processes to streamline workflows, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver scalable solutions that impact millions of users globally.

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you in the Finance Data & Experiences (FD&E) global organization. In FD&E, we build solutions at scale that enable Microsoft to run its end-to-end business more effectively and efficiently. Our products empower data-driven decision-making across a wide range of users. We work closely with Finance and Engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions.

We pride ourselves on a culture of customer centricity, innovation, agility, transparency, and flexibility. We encourage out-of-the-box thinking to tackle complex technical and business challenges.

Our team is looking for an exceptionally talented full-stack developer to work on a strategic internal program to improve cost and process efficiencies across our organization. The Software Engineer II must have a track record of showing up in a variety of technical and business situations with an inquisitive, can-do mindset and the ability to break through barriers, challenge the status quo, and build connections across organizations.  Our ideal candidate will think about audience scenarios and demonstrate user empathy when designing and developing solutions. The Software Engineer II needs to have an eagerness to roll up sleeves, learn & apply the latest technologies while building high-quality web applications, APIs and microservices with high availability and reliability that simplify complex business problems.

Technical Development:

• Collaborate on the design, development, and deployment of innovative, scalable web applications.
• Develop full-stack solutions, working across modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or Blazor) and backend systems (.NET Core, Node.js).
• Design APIs and backend services with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Contribute to building robust, modular systems following best practices in software engineering.

Product-Focused Engineering:

• Build user-centric applications with an emphasis on improving user experience and productivity.
• Think critically about the interactions between client and server while designing APIs and services.
• Design and implement backend systems optimized for latency, scalability, fault tolerance, caching, and queuing.

System Design & Architecture:

• Participate in system design discussions and help implement scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Apply modern design patterns (e.g., MVC, Dependency Injection, CQRS) to create clean, efficient architectures.

Collaboration:

• Partner closely with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Engage in code reviews, design discussions, and cross-team collaborations to ensure quality and alignment.

Continuous Improvement:

• Leverage data-driven insights to optimize system performance and drive continuous improvement in application development.
• Contribute to team-wide goals and processes that enhance productivity and technical outcomes.