Microsoft Principal Software Engineer - Office Product Group 

Serbia, Central Serbia, Belgrade 

295598943

ThePrincipal Software Engineer

In theMicrosoft Word team, our focus is driving the next phase of Word layout engine, a core aspect of how Word documents are visualized and interacted with across devices. We are looking for creative and driven software engineers with passion for web full stack development to achieve our vision of redefining the future of documents across all platforms and devices.

Context IQ (CIQ) project. Context IQ is a set of features that bring intelligence right into the typing loop in some of, such as Word, Outlook, PowerPoint,and others. Bringing personalized insights from your data in the Microsoft graph such as people, files, Viva topics, and many others, means you no longer need to search for the relevant information -it isright there at your fingertips. Context IQ helps users quickly access the information that they need from within their flow, meaning they can spend more time conveying the meaning they would like to share.More than this Context IQ helps bring context into Microsoft Copilot, helping people get more out of Microsoft Intelligence products.This will represent a significant boost to our users' productivity.

Security, accuracy, reliability, and performance are critical to the success of these features. In building them you will need to solve tough technical challenges on a large scale. This will deliver the “magic” of suggesting just what every unique user needs, just when they need it. And in building this you will scale the value toa very largenumber of users every single minute of every single day.

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical fieldandin-depth technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to,TypeScript, JavaScript,C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive software development experience building commercial grade software, including experience in large scale, high availability services and experiences
• Proven experience inguiding and mentoring a team of engineers
• Previousexperience working withend-user facing productswith focus onusabilityand performanceat scale
• Ability to effectively work in collaborative multiple projects team environment and ship production features, having formal and non-formal leadership skills
• Strong ability in self-learning, entering new domain, managing through uncertainty in an innovative team environment

• Writing Assistance and Language Intelligenceteam, create and improve architecture designs for MicrosoftContext IQ andEditorworking throughtechnical challenges that involve multiple teams and services.
• Design, produce and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, efficiency, etc. of a service, including periodic on-call duties where necessary
• Drive the engineering culture to strive for a scalable architecture, operational excellence, experimentation driven culture, growth mindset, and being customer obsessed
• Driving innovation and changes by influencing,leading,and collaborating effectively across leadership,teams,and organizations
• Driving features, projects, and open-ended problems towards resolution
• Take initiative toidentifyand fix bottlenecks, proactivelycreatethe proposals for further improvements of the system,process,and owned product
• Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment,providetechnical guidance to other engineers and act as mentor
• Work with international teams within Microsoft