Senior Software Engineering Manager

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Inside Microsoft's Web Experiences Team

As a UX-focused Software Engineer, you live on the front end of our products and the features used by millions of people every day. For this position you will have a chance to work with Bing CoPilot, which uses advanced language models like GPT-4. Work is challenging, fast-paced, and always changing. You have strong analytical skills, an unwavering commitment to quality, infectious passion, a collaborative work ethic, and cutting-edge coding skills. You should live and breathe the fundamentals of JavaScript (not just jQuery), CSS, and HTML, and command an impressive portfolio of web technologies new and old - all in order to launch innovative features to a global audience.

User experience (UX) is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to yield insights that inform product strategy and guide the design of the experiences we create.

Since Bing launched in June of 2009, the search world has changed for the better. We are helping people break free from search overload and enabling them to make decisions with Bing’s powerful, friendly tools. We are attracting new users and changing how people think about Microsoft and Search. We have a long road ahead and we need your help #WWE#

**Responsibilities**:
Bing is the beating heart of the Microsoft AI. Current position enables you to be part of the evolving intelligent Bing search where you will be responsible for
- Leading a team of Individual Contributors and working closely with outlining vision and charter for the team
- Work with other leaders and partners in the org to identify opportunities for impact and work with team to deliver results by generating clarity.
- Analyze and take decisions based on complex and ambiguous (big) data points
- Implement web or mobile interfaces using CSS, JavaScript and other Open-source libraries
- Work closely with our PM and design teams to define feature specifications and build the next generation of products leveraging frameworks (such as ASP.net) and open-source (such as React & React Native)

Key to our continued success in this hypercompetitive space is taking enormous volumes of data and turning them into useful, actionable information to drive increased user engagement through great Bing features and improvements. We are talking petabytes of data about how searches succeed, how they fail, and how we can improve Bing and its partners. You will engage very closely with other key partner teams that are dependent on our platform and experiences, to drive end-to-end scenario helping our user growth. This position offers great career-growth potential as well as the impact and visibility across the entire Bing organization. Being at the very core of Bing engineering, it also offers great exposure to the latest software and hardware technology trends in the search industry.

**Qualifications**:
Required Qualifications:

- Experience leading teams and managing people.
- Proven record of delivering impact with team work.
- Software development experience with proficiency in C# or C/C++
- Experience with web technologies
- Understanding of MVC architecture
- Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Razor and CSS
- Fluency with at least one scripting language such as Python, React or PHP
- Great problem solving and analytical skills with high intellectual horsepower
- Excellent communicator, capable of building and maintaining relationships with various Microsoft teams
- BS in CS or EE or Math or Statistics required. Master, PhD or equivalent experience a bonus
- Comprehensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches

Preferred qualifications:
Experience in any of the following areas is a plus: React, Web Component, machine learning, web mining, statistics, and information retrieval. Contributions to the open source community. Practical experience with machine learning is a plus

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