Senior Software Engineering Lead - Africa Development Center at Microsoft

Job number 630706
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment type Full-Time
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession Engineering
Role type People Manager

Background

• Imagine this: you finally finish writing that code. Now comes the tedious part - setting up the testing 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 people like you to lead building this service from zero to world-class maturity.

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 5+ 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