On Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. We are leading with innovation, as highlighted by bringing the Game Pass subscription to PC, bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming, and our recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard King creating exciting new possibilities for players.
The Player Experiences and Platforms engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer II to help us build Game Pass experiences and bring new end-to-end features to the Xbox app for PC.
In your role, you will work with a diverse team of engineers, defining end-to-end user experiences, architecture, performance targets, and technology investments to help drive subscriber engagement and growth in the PC ecosystem. We’re using React Native on Windows to enable cross-product code-sharing. We're looking for Software Engineer II to drive features and infrastructure within that stack.
Your experience will enable our teams to be efficient and effective when developing new features. You will be working closely with your engineering team, product management, and design. As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to projects with execution and partner with individuals on your team, providing a positive environment for technical and career growth.
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.
Responsibilities
- Feature design and implementation and delivering projects through execution. Build features with other engineers to drive larger features and infrastructure improvements.
- Ideate, scope, and drive implementation, validation, and health monitoring.
- Implementing new features and contributing to a product infrastructure area like performance, reliability, accessibility, shared libraries, telemetry.
- Partnering with other PC Gaming Experiences teams to identify shared code opportunities and drive best practices across the team.
- Build real-time data monitoring and alerting signals to monitor the health of features you ship to know when critical errors happen and when critical dependencies fail.
Other
- Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, or JavaScript
- OR equivalent experience
- 2+ years of professional software development experience building end-user applications
- 2+ years of design and coding skills in JavaScript or C++
- 2+ years of experience shipping consumer features and track record of driving code design for multiple feature areas
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, or JavaScript
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, or JavaScript
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience building subscription or gaming-related user experiences on PC or Mobile
- ReactJS or React Native Windows development experience
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $120,900 - $198,600 per year.
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