Responsibilities

• Collaborate with partner teams (both service and data science) to deliver end-to-end systems and experiences.  
• Investigate and prototype new technologies and frame works in Azure. 
• Design, implement, and test server-side code related to Routing, Manageability and Compute Hosting.  
• Ensure availability, latency, scalability needs addressed by engineering reliability into software and systems.  
• Focus on operability of the service including security, privacy, resiliency, Business Continuity & disaster recovery.  
• Contribute to team-wide infrastructure investments.   
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services or systems.  
• Maintain an unwavering focus on Quality of Service. Execute with high accountability. 

Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in software development using .Net (C#, Web API, REST)   
• Minimum  2+ years of experience in distributed computing
  Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Design, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required.
•  4+ years of industry experience in service development, successfully shipping services through multiple releases. 
• The ideal candidate is an experienced Software Development Engineer with a proven track record of delivering products.  
• Familiarity with chat bots and NLP concepts is a plus but not required. 
• Experience with Azure cloud platform or equivalent.  
• Real-world experience developing large scale online services with robust performance, resiliency, telemetry, and security.  
• Experience developing service to service protocols
• Experience with service and user identity models, access or identity token acquisition and management
• Comfortable driving complex server & client architecture across large product teams.  
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work in a dynamic/agile environment.   
• A passion for improving engineering practices and producing high quality software.  
• Self-motivated and customer focused.  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.