Software Engineering: Full-Time Opportunities For University Graduates

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University graduates from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

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.

We are expanding our team, and we are looking for engineers that are at the start of their career. We are looking for people that will not only write code but will have a meaningful impact on the direction of products and features that we are building.

Responsibilities

• You will contribute in partnership with appropriate stakeholder to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
• You will learn and contribute to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and learns to create proposals by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans under the technical leadership of others as well as help produce code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assists with technical validation efforts.
• With guidance, you will learn to create and implement code that is extensible and maintainable and apply diagnosability, reliability and maintainabilit, and understand when the code is ready to be shared and delivered for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable
• You will learn to review work items to gain knowledge of product features in partnership with appropriate stakeholders and assist and learn about breaking down work items into tasks and provides estimation as well as escalate any issues that would cause a delay.
• You will learn about and contribute to operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis and identify solutions and mitigations to simple issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services and escalates as necessary.
• You will help develop and contribute to automation within production and deployment of a product feature and run code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with oversight.
• You will embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or have completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field.
• You must be legally authorised to work in Ireland to be eligible for this role.
  • (Legally authorised = Has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)
• Ability to show an understanding of one or more OOP languages including but not limited to: C#, Java, C/C++, Python or Rust.
• Ability to show an understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience including related software engineering internships.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

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.