Software Engineering

As a Microsoft Software Engineer your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with and guide internal and external stakeholders to determine and confirm customer/user requirements for a product or solution.
• Lead discussions and own the architecture for a product/solution; create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and developing design specifications.
• Create a clear testing strategy to ensure product/solution quality and prevent regression in existing code.
• Identify dependencies and incorporate them into design documents for a product/solution.
• Produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code adhering to design specifications.
• Use debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions during development before issues occur in production.
• Leverage appropriate tooling (e.g., artificial intelligence) to improve efficiency and overall quality of work output.
• Review product code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product/solution.
• Design, implementation, testing, rollout and running software services.
• Work in a collaborative and agile environment, with local and remote partners and team members.
• Ship your code to thousands of machines serving millions of users around the world.

Do you have experience in Time management?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Strong technical problem-solving skills and a desire to learn from others.
• Experience in software development with ability to produce maintainable and well-tested code.
• Strong skills in collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements.
• Proficiency with debugging, testing, and telemetry tools.
• Knowledge of using tooling/AI to improve work efficiency.
• Understanding of algorithms, data structures and other systems architecture factors that affect code quality, performance, and customer experience.
• Skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in defining testing strategies and preventing regressions
• Capability to lead architecture discussions and design specifications.
• Proven ability to identify dependencies and incorporate them into design.
• Strong code and test code review experience ensuring compliance with team standards

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Norway is kr 615,000.00 - kr 998,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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