OneDrive and SharePoint products deliver innovative and delightful experiences for personal and business users across devices and platforms. We empower people to create, share, and manage their content in the cloud, and collaborate seamlessly with others. We also work closely with other teams across Microsoft, such as Office, Teams, Windows, and Power Platform, to integrate our capabilities and provide a consistent and coherent user experience.

Our team is a highly collaborative group of creative people including user researchers, product designers, UX Engineers, content designers, prototypes, illustrators, and more. We are looking for a Sr. UX Engineer to help us build the future of product experiences at Microsoft. This role offers the opportunity to significantly elevate the quality and craft of the experiences we ship. Your expertise will be crucial in shaping the future of Microsoft's offerings, ensuring they meet the highest standards of excellence and innovation.

If you are an engineer with a knack for delighting users with your impactful coding skills, we are looking for you. Join us to empower people to create, share, and manage their content in the cloud, and collaborate seamlessly with others.

About you

The ideal candidate is passionate about solving problems and has a comprehensive understanding of engineering principles and best practices. They have a deep appreciation for quality and understand the work required to get there. Someone who has worked extensively with design systems, visual systems, and the design to development workflow. Most of all, they have empathy for the customer and are motivated to create experiences people love.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain extensible and reusable code and champion the vision for user experience across various platforms and devices

• Serve as a vital link between the Design and Engineering teams to realize the vision into reality.

• Strong attention to detail and polish while considering performance and maintainability

• Ability to work effectively with Designers, Researchers, Backend engineers and Project Managers.

• Offer alternatives when technology constraints require design compromises

• Provide code review feedback to the product team, sharing best practices with the team

• Identify and take ownership of opportunities for new tools, processes, and patterns

• Comfortable working through ambiguity and multiple priorities

• Communicate clearly and consistently with stakeholders about status and opportunities

Qualifications

• B.Tech/ BCA/BS/MS/ M.Tech in Computer Science or Software Engineering with a strong emphasis on user interface design, web design, or a related field

• 4+ years of experience with front-end technologies & shipping production-ready web applications

• Experience with front-end build systems and tooling including React, Preact and Typescript

• Experience working on large codebases & familiarity with backend technologies

• Experience with cross-device, cross browser testing, responsive design and accessibility (WCAG Standards)

• Experience with assistive technologies (e.g. screen readers), animation and/or motion libraries

• Familiar with Figma and Figma component libraries and/or plugins

• Online portfolio that showcases your work (e.g. GitHub, Codepen)

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .