Software Engineer II

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People Analytics Experience (PAX) is an organization equipped with building transformative tools like personal insights agent and know your team agent to empower organizational leaders and employees by providing deep insights into their work patterns, relationships, and productivity. PAX aims to deliver significant value by enabling users to better understand and optimize their time, topics, and interactions at work.

• Empowering Organizational Leaders: Accurate people queries for strategic workforce management, enabling informed decisions about workforce planning, skilling, and AI transformation.
• Empowering Employees: Accurate people queries to connect people to key contact information, available in M365 Bizchat, linked to Insights.
• Personal Insights Scenarios: Features include Focus time booking, Praise in Teams, and Copilot first initiatives, addressing Bizchat DSAT.
• User Love for PAX: Users appreciate its ease of use, ability to provide precise insights, and the excitement it brings to their work.
• Long Term Principles: Commitment to providing users with easy-to-parse information, transparency, and confidence in the data received from Copilot.

As a Software Engineer II, our mission is to make employee experience solutions easy to discover, empower modules and capability providers to build cohesive, interconnected experiences, and provide shared entities/capabilities that reduce time to market for new modules/features.

We operate like a start-up, encouraging team members to share a sense of “founder-ism.” Our culture is inclusive, casual, and motivating. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and value passion for serving our customers.

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 field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work on cross-platform code.
• Exposure communicating, collaborating and navigating ambiguity in a cross-group environment.
• Understanding driving quality experience for customers.
• Understanding of LLM and copilot.

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• Design and build well-scoped features that enhance AI-powered employee experiences, with a focus on clean, maintainable code.
• Partner with senior engineers to break down complex problems, contribute to technical discussions, and learn through active collaboration.
• Own the delivery of components or services, ensuring quality through testing, observability, and thoughtful documentation.
• Participate in and contribute to code reviews, not just for feedback but as a way to grow technical depth and contribute to team standards.
• Improve team velocity by identifying reusable patterns, simplifying code paths, and contributing to internal tooling or automation.
• Stay engaged with evolving AI and platform capabilities, bringing curiosity and experimentation to how new ideas can enhance product value.