Microsoft

Software Engineer - User Experience

Microsoft • $102K — $202K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 2+ years of software engineering experience with languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Experience with modern frontend technologies, particularly React and TypeScript/JavaScript.
  • Proficient in building responsive, accessible, and maintainable web applications.
  • Ability to create intuitive and user-friendly experiences from complex data-rich information.
  • Familiarity with integrating applications with APIs and cloud services.
  • Experience with AI-powered applications and collaborating in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate modern UX experiences for sellers.
  • Transform complex earnings and incentives data into simple interfaces.
  • Implement AI-powered experiences for natural interactions with earnings information.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features from concept to production.
  • Ensure integration of UX with APIs, data, and AI services for cohesive experiences.
  • Build secure, reliable, and accessible applications that meet compliance standards.
  • Engage in production support and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday leave.
  • Retirement savings plan with company matching contributions.
  • Access to employee discounts and wellness programs.
  • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Seller Experience team is transforming how Microsoft sellers understand and interact with earnings through MSX-E. We are looking for a Software Engineer - User Experience (UX Engineer) to help build a new, modern seller earnings experience from the ground up. This is a UX-focused engineering role centered on creating intuitive, responsive, accessible, and trustworthy experiences that simplify complex earnings and incentive information for sellers.

You will use modern frontend technologies, including React and TypeScript, and work across product, UX, service, data, and AI boundaries to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences. A key part of this transformation is bringing AI-powered and agentic capabilities into the seller's journey, enabling sellers to ask questions, explore earnings information, and receive relevant assistance through natural interactions.

We are looking for a Software Engineer - User Experience with software engineering and UX development fundamentals, customer empathy, attention to detail, and a bias for action. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, UX designers, and partner teams to gain experience from concept and design through implementation, deployment, and production operation.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate modern seller-facing UX experiences, with a primary focus on frontend engineering using React, TypeScript, and modern web technologies.


  • Build the next generation of MSX-E Earnings experiences, transforming complex earnings, incentives, performance, quota attainment, payment, estimation, and reporting information into simple and intuitive experiences for sellers.


  • Design and implement AI-powered and agentic experiences that enable sellers to ask questions, explore information, and interact naturally with the earnings experience.


  • Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, engineers, and partner teams to deliver end-to-end features from concept and design through production.


  • Integrate UX experiences with APIs, services, identity, data, and AI capabilities to provide secure, reliable, and cohesive seller experiences.


  • Build responsive, accessible, performant, secure, and maintainable experiences that meet Microsoft engineering, privacy, accessibility, and compliance standards.


  • Participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions and contribute to engineering and UX development best practices.


  • Use telemetry, experimentation, production signals, and seller feedback to improve usability, product quality, performance, and reliability.


  • Participate in production engineering and live-site support, including incident investigation, mitigation, root-cause analysis, and durable service-health improvements.


  • Contribute to AI-native engineering practices, including AI-assisted development, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational workflows.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field and 3+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.


  • Experience building and shipping modern customer-facing web applications and user experiences.


  • Experience with React, TypeScript/JavaScript, or comparable modern frontend technologies.


  • Experience developing responsive, accessible, performant, and maintainable web applications.


  • Experience translating complex, data-rich business scenarios into simple and intuitive user experiences.


  • Experience integrating frontend applications with APIs, cloud services, authentication and authorization, and distributed backend systems.


  • Experience building or integrating AI-powered applications, copilots, agents, conversational experiences, or intelligent user experiences.


  • Experience working with Azure or comparable cloud platforms and with telemetry, observability, production engineering, incident management, or live-site operations.


  • Experience working collaboratively across engineering, product management, UX design, data, and business teams.


Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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