Microsoft Hiring for Senior Software Engineer at Vancouver, BC Full Time

GroupMe is ever-growing light-weight messaging platform. Part of the Microsoft Teams family of products, connecting millions of users around the world. Our engineering team is expanding, looking for a talented developer to join server team. We are passionate about developing internet services with millions of users, being on the leading edge of technology. If you are passionate about communication platforms as well – especially if you are good at micro-services architecture – we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

As a GroupMe Server Engineer on the team, you will:

• Get to have a freedom and meaningful impact on one of the most popular and loved services in the world
• Be part of startup project within Microsoft 🙂
• Work with other engineers on the team to design, architect, and implement new features end-to-end (other team members in Seattle, USA and Prague, Czech Republic).
• Collaborate with Product Management and Client teams to create rapid prototypes of new ideas
• Work closely with Work in a friendly, supportive environment. We care about the career trajectory and development of our engineers
• Use a wide range of different technologies
• Promote practices that ensure high-quality, scalability, stability, and performance

Qualifications

Qualifications:
Knowledge and commercial experience with all the flavors of web services (HA, Scaling, Resilience, Monitoring, …)

Experince with software quality, combined with agile delivery.

Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. design patterns, unit testing, code reviews, …)

Ability to effectively collaborate with team mates. Gain and Share knowledge on daily basis!

4 years experience and knowledge of Linux and GIT.

4 years experience and knowledge of Golang, Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Docker.

Preferred experience of Chef, NSQ, Redis, Kafka, TDD would be advantageous.

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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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