Principal Software Development Engineer

Company: PowerToFly
Location: Redmond
Posted on: September 17, 2020

Job Description:

Our new Bot Framework Skill capability enables conversational experiences to stitch together 1st party capabilities such as Productivity and Bing but also enable a rich 3rd party ecosystem including anything built with the Bot Framework.

Incubation and investment in key Skill partnerships will help build a thriving ecosystem where our customers and partners can surface their conversational capabilities wherever their end users are whilst also composing capabilities from others.

Responsibilities We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with experience building platforms and bringing together pieces from Microsoft platform to help us bring the next generation of advanced assistants to life.

#BotFramework #ConversationalAI

As a Principal SDE on this team, you'll not only be challenged to innovate on what the cutting edge of AI supports, but you'll also help drive the architecture and processes related to building quality virtual assistants across C#, JavaScript, Python, and Java. You'll mentor and grow the talent in the broader engineering team.

Set the Technical and Quality Bar across the Virtual Assistant

Design and implement patterns and practices for Conversational AI

Partner in cross-language design of complex conversational features

Develop in the open on GitHub and help grow and maintain a healthy community

Bring together all the components needs to deliver an end-to-end Open Assistant.

In this position, you'll need to love customer interaction, as customer focus is the key lens for our work. Bots are a new field, and ambiguity is everywhere - so a passion for figuring out "what", "why" and "how" is critical.

You’ll be part of an innovative and agile team helping to build out the Open Assistant capabilities. You will own key features end to end whilst working with key customers to help validate our work and ensure they are successful.

Qualifications Required:

7 + years of industry experience developing and implementing platforms, tools and applications at scale

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Designed and delivered applications and platforms that are performant, reliable and secure for millions of users

Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript development from high-level architecture to low-level optimizations

Experience with C# development from high-level architecture to low-level optimizations

Experience working in software engineering, and can demonstrate best practices for project management, CI/CD and build infrastructure, quality control, and product development

Experience with Node.js and Browser technologies

Comfortable dealing with ambiguous, challenging or new problems

Results driven; strong analytical skills with good communication skills

Preferred:

Experience in the following areas is highly desirable but we can bring the right person up to speed as part of on-boarding:

Proven track record of collaborative design in an agile team environment

Passionate about crafting the best user experience for the customer

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, willing and ability to mentor other developers

Experience in continuous integration systems

Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript tooling such as yarn/rush/lerna, ECMA Modules, Webpack/Rollup

A track record of working collaboratively to understand customer needs and create solutions that positively impact our customers.

Experience building conversational experiences leveraging the Microsoft Bot Framework and associated Cognitive Services (e.g. Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) and Speech)

Azure DevOps experience

Experience with GitHub and open source project collaboration.

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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