Principal Software Engineering Manager – Africa Development Center at Microsoft Nigeria

Microsoft Nigeria If you have unique experiences, skills and passions-and we believe you can bring them all to Microsoft for a rich, rewarding career and lifestyle that will surprise you with its breadth and potential. Just imagine the excitement and satisfaction of what you can do, where you can go, and the difference you can make with the resources of Microsoft behind you.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Principal Software Engineering Manager – Africa Development Center

Job number: 630698
Location: Lagos
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: People Manager
Employment type: Full-Time

Detailed Description

Imagine this: you finally finish writing that code. Now comes the tedious part – setting up the test 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 someone like you to be a thought leader and manage a team of engineers building this service from zero to world-class maturity.
We believe in being experimental, learning constantly, being scrappy while bringing order to disorder, helping each other as humans and professionals to be our best possible selves. We believe great ideas come from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and cognitive styles. We actively create an environment where everyone’s ideas can be heard and can contribute toward a much better end result. We live and breathe Microsoft’s mission to empower every single person and organization on the planet to achieve more.
If you’re interested, apply to come join our team!

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 8+ 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: