Software Engineer

Job description

Cloud and Enterprise Cloud and Enterprise (C&E); Servers, Azure, Visual Studio, Dynamics, these are the primary engines of creation that drive any enterprise.   Today’s enterprise computing landscape encompasses a wide variety of technologies, from low level operating systems, to higher level cloud based services and applications.   Within C&E, we develop both the core OS technology found on every device from desktops to cloud VMs.   We create the mission critical database systems that are the life blood of any organization.   We continuously evolve the developer tools, in Visual Studio, which give developers an ability to harness the ever broadening powers and resources available both within the walls of an enterprise, and across the internet.  

Whether you are a low level kernel programmer, or a high level web portal designer, the C&E division has a job to fit your skills and desires.   We are looking for candidates who can think broadly, collaborate well, pick up and contribute to a broad range of technologies, and generally want to have fun enabling enterprise customers to leverage technology to be their most efficient and effective in their business.  

Successful candidates will exhibit various attributes which will enhance their ability to succeed in these various positions.

-      Collaboration - As most development is about working with others, both within an immediate team, as well as across business units and portions of the company, an ability to collaborate effectively is a core competency to have.

-      Customer Focus - A focus on delivering customer value, and being able to directly tie engineering decisions and actions to that value is a huge plus for successful engineers at any level.

-      Drive For Results   - Being able to drive for results, not merely finding the boundary of your responsibility, but following a problem through to its conclusion, to solve it once and for all, is a skill and ability which a successful engineer should exhibit.

-      Technical Excellence - ore to being a software engineer is of course technical excellence.   This is not merely knowing the latest and greatest language developments, but demonstrating a passion for technology, a curiosity to go deep, and an ability to quickly learn and build upon past experiences, to be able to extrapolate from those experiences, and deliver innovations.   Technical excellence is rooted in having a strong demonstrable aptitude for problem solving.

Basic Qualifications:

-      Experience as a Software Engineer with any of the following:   Ruby, node.js, Python, C#, Java

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