Software Engineer – Cloud

Accelerate your career at Microsoft Development Center in Prague

Are you passionate about software development and would you like to work with the best in the business? Are you willing to move to a cloud-based Software Engineering role?

Joining One of Microsoft’s strategic, international development centers in Europe is an opportunity to gain valuable experience in a multicultural environment and to realize your dream of a fast-paced career in the frontline of software development. You will be part of an international team working on products and technologies that have a genuine global impact and you will learn from some of the best talents in the world. Not the least, you will experience what it is like to work at Microsoft.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is a rapidly growing business at Microsoft and considered one of the leaders in software as a service in the world of business applications. Dynamics CRM is a generic relationship management suite that allows you to quickly build line-of-business applications in the front-office areas of Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and beyond allowing businesses to transform the way they build and nurture customer relationships.

CRM team has made a strategic decision to expand its team to the Microsoft Development Center in Prague. This is an exciting time to join Dynamics CRM - we are innovating and rethinking CRM. We are focusing on the capabilities next-generation business productivity software needs to provide in a mobile and cloud first world. We aim to build the best-in-class cloud application on Azure and are looking for experienced engineers to help us design the next version of our online service.

Job Description

Feature design, high-end coding and owning quality of new products

As an engineer you will be responsible for implementing features towards a wide variety of business applications and services within Dynamics CRM products portfolio as well as ensuring they are done to meet rigorous quality standards with the end result being software that is used by individuals and businesses throughout the world. In short you will do the following:

Design, implement, test, deploy, maintain and improve our software components and services
Embrace and use state-of-the-art new technologies
Participate in technical discussions and bring new ideas on the table
Own quality of your code (i.e., unit tests, TDD, and other test methodologies)
Work with Product Managers, Architects, and UX Designers to design and specify new features from the engineering standpoint
Develop software that empowers customers to optimize their business processes
Author internal tools that improve the teams’ quality and productivity
Contribute to the positive, solution-focused and creative team spirit
Support less experienced team members in their progress and development

Throughout your tasks, you will work closely with Program Managers and other Software Engineers in order to optimize design, quality and functionality as Microsoft places a premium on the ability to work well in a team environment.

To succeed in this job, it is also crucial that you are able to see your contributions as part of a larger team: how does your component fit into the overall product and will it meet the needs of the users in the best possible way. This skill takes a combination of the ability to break down tough problems, creative thinking, and hard work, to turn these challenges into solutions.
At the same time, it is essential that you like working in teams where collaboration and knowledge sharing is the way to meet the common goals.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Being familiar with creating great software, you have been working in the industry for two or more years, and you are experienced with object-oriented programming and technologies like C#, .NET, C++, Java or similar languages. Knowledge of building of Cloud Services and of Big Data platforms and tools is a big plus

Software Engineering or Computer Science degree, and your specialty is software design, coding and testing

The job’s international aspects and our international work environment require that you are proficient in both written and spoken English.