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Software Development Engineer, Senior - Windows Phone

Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 747250
Product: Windows Phone
Division: Windows Phone Division
The Windows Phone Division is creating a phone experience that is personal, relevant, connected and FUN! The Entertainment and Shell Experiences team (ESX) is focused on a broad suite of rich and exciting consumer experiences including Start, Photos & Camera, Music & Video, Gaming and in this case most importantly App & Games Marketplace!

Our mission is to build experiences that delight our users whether they have hours to immerse themselves or simply a moment “between times” because we can find experiences, applications, and entertainment instantly with ease, and entertainment comes to them through serendipitous social discovery. We strive to make ours the most easy to use and entertaining phones available.

We are looking for a VERY strong developer to join our team and help bring our big vision to life. Do you enjoy challenges? Do you want to work in an environment where you can help architect client software that works across multiple backend services and in multiple countries around the world? Do you care about the end to end customer experience? Do you enjoy thinking about how features we’re building today can directly increase revenue for Microsoft in the future? Do you care about our 1st party and 3rd party developer experiences? If so then the ESX is where you need to be.

The focus area of this team is our full end-to-end app marketplace experience. Your job is to ensure that experience is reliable, compelling both for customers and developers, performs well, and is super high-quality. You will help us drive an exciting set of new customer focused and developer focused features into the marketplace. You will be engaged throughout all phases of the product cycle, and will have plenty of opportunities to contribute to groundbreaking experiences while growing your skills and career. To accomplish this you will have to drive your own feature areas as well as coordinate with multiple partner teams across the division and across the company.


What we need from you:
-A positive attitude and a passion for mobile entertainment
-Great coding skills and the ability to coordinate with your PM and Test peers
-Good organizational skills and an eye for details
-Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and grow junior members across the team.
-Candidates must possess solid oral and written communications skills and have strong demonstrable C/C++ coding and debugging skills. Experience with creating user interfaces is desired but not required.
-A BS or MS degree in CS or the equivalent is required.
-5+ years’ experience in software development is required.

The ideal candidate will also possess:
-A proven track record of shipping high quality software multiple times and a strong desire to join and influence a sustainable, high performance culture.
-Win32 experience, Windows CE experience and a strong customer focus.
-Hands-on experience with mobile app development and mobile platform marketplaces - personal or professional - is a BIG plus.

What you get from this assignment:
-You will help define the user interface and end user experience application design in the next version of Windows Phone
-You will be designing new features for Application and Games Marketplace.
-You will be collaborating with Test, Program Management and Services teams.
-The ability to show people first hand exactly what you worked on!

This position offers you the opportunity to work with the latest state of the art hardware and user interface design(s) as well as great people.

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Software Development Engineer, Senior - Windows Phone