Job Description

Overview

Microsoft 365 brings together productivity applications and cloud services that empower people and organizations to create, communicate, and collaborate. PowerPoint is central to this mission, helping millions of people transform ideas into compelling stories and visually engaging presentations.The Microsoft 365 team is growing, and the PowerPoint organization is looking for talented engineers to help build the future of presentation creation. As a PowerPoint engineer, you will contribute to one of the world’s most widely used presentation products and deliver experiences that reach millions of customers.As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build features for PowerPoint for the web that help users create compelling stories and visually engaging presentations. You will define technical strategy, drive engineering excellence, and pioneer AI-powered innovations that shape the future of PowerPoint. Working with cross-functional partners, you will translate customer needs into robust, scalable experiences while improving performance and reliability through techniques such as lazy loading, caching, and asynchronous loading. If you are excited by complex technical challenges, broad cross-team influence, and the opportunity to transform how millions of people create presentations with AI, we would love to hear from you.This position provides an excellent opportunity for full-stack product development using AI, shaping the future of PowerPoint for the web, as we combine innovative front-end and back-end technologies with the power of cloud services to deliver an exceptional value for the users worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and improve large-scale system architecture and infrastructure.
• Design and develop complete features and experiences with high quality, evolving the service to scale and having world-class performance and reliability.
• You will be hands-on in implementation, debugging, shipping and mitigating incidents in live production environments.
• Write high quality code, complete with unit and integration tests.
• You will provide mentorship and coaching to team to help them identify and propose relevant solutions.
• Work closely with Product Management and Design disciplines to shape the infrastructure and product.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
• 6+ years of software development experience in C#, C++, .NET, TypeScript, or similar programming languages or platforms
• Proficiency in Data Structures and Algorithms
• Experience building and shipping production grade services.
• Track record of delivering products, features and functionality on time, with extremely high quality
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to work cross- team in collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with agentic engineering and AI-assisted coding across design, implementation, testing, debugging, and code review, with responsible validation and quality practices.
• Experience with Azure Cloud and ADO (Azure DevOps) pipeline is preferred but not required
• Experience with JavaScript/Typescript and HTML5 and familiarity with frameworks like React is a plus.
• Passion for building highly available products at scale.
• Self-driven, pro-active, results-oriented and ability to work with minimal direction
• Experience leading a multi-person team from design through implementation to delivery

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.