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  • Posted: May 23, 2019
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser.
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    Principal Software Engineering Manager - Africa Development Center

    Job number: 630698
    Location: Lagos
    Travel: 0-25 %
    Profession: Engineering
    Role type: People Manager
    Employment type: Full-Time

    Detailed Description

    • Imagine this: you finally finish writing that code. Now comes the tedious part - setting up the test environment with the latest versions of all the tools you need. Wouldn’t it be awesome to have this easily available to you?
    • Millions of our enterprise customers and software vendors deal with this every month. It slows down their progress and makes their lives a little less fun. They cannot easily re-test their code as new security updates for Windows come out every month.
    • What if you could help solve this painful, recurring problem for around the globe? We’re building a Cloud service that uses intelligence to tackle this important problem. We want someone like you to be a thought leader and manage a team of engineers building this service from zero to world-class maturity.
    • We believe in being experimental, learning constantly, being scrappy while bringing order to disorder, helping each other as humans and professionals to be our best possible selves. We believe great ideas come from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and cognitive styles. We actively create an environment where everyone’s ideas can be heard and can contribute toward a much better end result. We live and breathe Microsoft’s mission to empower every single person and organization on the planet to achieve more.
    • If you’re interested, apply to come join our team!

    Responsibilities
    This job might be for you if:

    • You’re intrapreneurial and love being a founding member of teams
    • You love to roll up your sleeves and solve problems
    • You are excited about open source projects
    • You love growing and empowering teams of engineers
    • You love making and testing prototypes with real customers
    • You get excited about solving real problems that impact a large number of lives
    • You’re optimistic that we can help traditional industries with their digital transformation with cool new tech

    Qualifications

    • You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or 8+ experience building online services and data solutions
    • You have experience with:
      • Object-oriented languages like Java/C#
      • Web technologies like Javascript
      • Scripting languages like Python/Powershell
      • Working with Big Data
      • Hands-on management of a team of developers.

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

    • Industry leading healthcare
    • Savings and investments
    • Giving programs
    • Educational resources
    • Maternity and paternity leave
    • Opportunities to network and connect
    • Discounts on products and services
    • Generous time away.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Microsoft on careers.microsoft.com to apply

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