About the position
The mission of Learning Product Team in Worldwide Learning (WWL) is to develop world-class, innovative Skilling Products & Experiences that inspire customers, partners, MCAPS sellers, and future generations to achieve more by skilling, upskilling, and reskilling, thereby reaching 100M+ learners. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. As the Senior Software Engineer - Mobile for Mobile development (iOS & Android), you will serve as a hands-on engineer and technical authority, spearheading the design and implementation of sophisticated learning and skilling solutions that enhance our Microsoft Skilling platforms and Learning which aligns with the Strategic goals and key Objectives established by WWL to reach 100M+ learners helping Ignite our Base and Lead with Learning. We envision a world where all skilling content will be accessible across various platforms including mobile leveraging the latest AI-assisted features. For instance, we will need to modernize skilling content operations and reimagine release at scale to enable more efficient ways of consumption across Learn, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and other platforms. We will share best practices with our customers to replicate in their own environments. In the future, we could potentially monetize these services through our learning partners. If you enjoy working in a collaborative and agile environment where you can apply your technical skills and creativity into a security space and thrive on addressing real world problems, we are looking for you. Are you passionate about security and working with other experienced Software Engineers to build complex, scalable solutions across Microsoft Skilling platforms for Commercial, Consumer, Sales Skilling and NextGen learners? Within Learn product Engineering Team, we are seeking a self-motivated, technically sound Senior Software Engineer for Mobile development (iOS & Android) to develop enterprise-grade features impacting millions of learners around the world who rely on Microsoft Skilling platforms for consuming the learning and skilling content across various across platforms. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain engineering infrastructure, tools, and services that power the CI/CD for Microsoft Learning (Skilling) across different Mobile clients/stores.
- Develop software features for Skilling platforms.
- Optimize mobile application performance and user experience.
- Refactor and improve the structure of the Android/iOS codebase to better support automation, testing scalability, and maintainability.
- Design and enhance test stubbing frameworks to support robust and reliable testing practices.
- Improve the reliability and debuggability of test frameworks by integrating automation and gates.
- Develop and utilize AI/LLM models to analyze test failures, identifying root causes such as test flakiness or infrastructure issues.
- Transition manual testing efforts currently handled by vendor DRIs into automated processes.
- Lead junior Software Engineers, and collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and cross-functional teams to deliver high quality security solutions across platforms that ship to hundreds of millions of learners around the world.
- Lead by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code.
- Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
- Work across organizations and directly with partners both in WWL and across Microsoft including other engineers and product leaders.
- Drive identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for our security features.
- Identify other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's own system may provide support to others.
- Determine any dependencies associated with application or platform functionality for the solution/product area.
- Understand up and downstream effects of solutions and work provided to ensure appropriate security and performance, drive reliability in the solutions, and optimize dependency chains and retrieves across teams.
- Drive identification of areas of dependency and overlap with other teams or team members and drive coordination.
- Communicate across teams and resolve conflicts between teams.
- Embody our Culture and Values.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- 4+ years of experience writing unit tests and functional tests using tools such as Espresso for Android or equivalent tools for iOS.
- 4+ years of experience in mobile development for iOS and Android platforms with coding in languages including, but not limited to React Native, Objective-C, Swift, Java, C++, and C#.
Benefits
- Industry leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
