Software Engineers at Microsoft Nigeria

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. 

At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Mixed Reality

Job Number: 970099
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor

Background
In Mixed Reality, people - not devices - are at the center of everything we do. Our tech moves beyond screens and pixels, creating a new reality aimed at bringing us closer together - whether that’s scientists "meeting" on the surface of a virtual Mars or some yet undreamt-of possibility. To get there, we’re incorporating groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more. 

We’re a growing team of talented engineers, program managers and artists putting technology on a human path across all Windows devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, the Internet of Things, phones, tablets, desktops, and Xbox. Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, previous work histories, life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. Our varied backgrounds and unique experiences enable us to be better at building the best solutions for our customers and make for dynamic and joyful collaborations with colleagues!  

If you are passionate about groundbreaking Mixed Reality technology and want to work on a team dedicated to a culture of inclusion, growth mindset and collaboration, we need you!

In the Mixed Reality Services team, we bring those technologies to a wider range of devices and brings people and things together across virtual and physical spaces We have an opportunity for a passionate and multi-talented Software Engineer to find their next technical and career growth challenge on our team.

Responsibilities

• We are developing many new cloud services that leverage AI and machine perception to enable rich, cross-platform Mixed Reality experiences. We’re a growing team of talented engineers putting technology on a human path across all devices. As a member of our team:
• You will work on the delivery of high-quality code components that will power the services, servers, distributed systems and science runtimes on our product.  
• You will play multiple, often divergent roles to ensure the success of our newly created engineering team.  
• You will work with industry-leading scientists and engineers to bring the latest AI, Machine Learning and Computer Vision capabilities to the cloud.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in Software Engineering.
• Experience building, releasing, and supporting applications or services in a modern programming language using a common application or services stack.
• Experience shipping cloud services, networked applications or distributed systems.
• Proven track record of multidisciplinary capabilities.
• Strong Collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience on Computer Vision field or Computer Graphics field preferred but not required.
• Proven track record working with Concurrent Programming concepts like asynchronous operations, distributed consensus and parallelism.

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - WDX

Job number: 1018216
Location: Lagos
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Hardware Manufacturing Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Description

• The Windows, Developers & Experiences (WDX) team, a part of the Windows + Devices (W+D) engineering organization, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to partner with us to build and ship the next generation version of Windows that will touch the lives of 1 Billion+ users worldwide! Help us build modern, intuitive, iconic and delightful user experiences that will propel Windows into the 2020’s.
• We are looking for data-driven and customer-obsessed engineers who like the challenge of working on features that span the entire development stack across the Windows OS, applications and devices and form factors that run the Windows OS, join us to define and deliver the next generation of Windows and the future of how humans experience computing.   
• You will play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping and influencing business opportunities for current and future customers of Windows.  We're looking for collaborative engineers to bring their passion, drive and technical skills to help us accomplish these goals.
• You will play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping and influencing business opportunities for current and future customers of Windows.  We're looking for collaborative engineers to bring their passion, drive and technical skills to help us accomplish these goals.

Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Be a technical leader on the team and deliver strongly on your areas of technical ownership
• Write technical documentation to describe technical details of your work with architects and key stakeholders.
• Effectively collaborate with talented peers across discipline (PM, Design, Data and Applied Science) to deliver on your work.  
• Drive building a positive culture on the team that aligns with Microsoft’s values.

Qualifications

• Passion, interest and optionally experience in building user experiences.
• Strong problem solving, analysis, collaboration and communication skills.  
• 5 - 10+ years of experience designing, building and shipping applications and software at scale.
• Experience with programming in any language is welcome, but experience with Object-Oriented programming languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc. would be an advantage.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field would be an advantage.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply

Job Title: Software Engineer - Windows, Developers & Experiences (WDX)

Job number: 1018217
Location: Lagos
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Hardware Manufacturing Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment Type: Full-Time

Description

• The Windows, Developers & Experiences (WDX) team, a part of the Windows + Devices (W+D) engineering organization, is looking for a Software Engineer to partner with us to build and ship the next generation version of Windows that will touch the lives of 1 Billion+ users worldwide! Help us build modern, intuitive, iconic and delightful user experiences that will propel Windows into the 2020’s.
• We are looking for data-driven and customer-obsessed engineers who like the challenge of working on features that span the entire development stack across the Windows OS, applications and devices and form factors that run the Windows OS, join us to define and deliver the next generation of Windows and the future of how humans experience computing.   
• You will play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping and influencing business opportunities for current and future customers of Windows.  We're looking for collaborative engineers to bring their passion, drive and technical skills to help us accomplish these goals.

Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer, you will:

• Participate in design discussions and code reviews with your team
• Collaborate with senior members and peers across disciplines (PM, Design, Data and Applied Science) to deliver your work  
• Be responsible for designing and implementing features on time and with high quality
• Contribute towards building a positive culture on the team that aligns with Microsoft’s values  

Qualifications

• Passion, interest and optionally experience in building user experiences
• Strong problem solving, analysis, collaboration and communication skills  
• 1-3+ years of experience building software and applications
• Experience with programming in any language is welcome, but experience with Object-Oriented programming languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc. would be an advantage  
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field would be an advantage.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply

Note

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 
• We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.