China
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER
Industry:
Engineering & Manufacturing
Career level:
Mid-level
Employment type:
Full time
Job location:
CHINA, Jiangsu
Salary offered
Negotiable
Requirements
Education:
Specialist's Degree
Experience:
2-5 years
Languages:
Chinese, English
Driving license:
No
Job role
Title: Senior dev/lead for Bing online Metrics
We are looking for a strong developer with lead potential or experience to join our Bing Online Metrics team, which is responsible for understanding how users engage with Bing search engine (bing.com) and translate that into actionable org level metrics. Online metrics are the fundamental in entire Bing org. Different feature teams are relying on our metrics to measure and quantify success. We are keeping improving and iterate the metrics to reflect the new research in user satisfaction on Bing and drive long-term success of Bing. We are a team full of high caliber, talented, passionate developers.
Responsibilities
As a senior member on the metric team, you would work closely with several teams across Bing to understand how users interact with their feature, what it means for a user to be satisfied with a search engine and what makes a user stay and choose one search engine over another. This work is foundational to how the Bing stack is optimized – be it ranking, visual changes, ad placement etc. You will take ownership of an area, be responsible for organizing the team efforts, coordinating and prioritizing the backlog, scheduling and execution.
Qualifications
1. MS or PhD degree in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics or related engineering field
2. 5+ years of experience as an Applied scientist/Data scientist/Software developer on large scale software development and familiarity with one or programming languages such as Java, C#, Python
3. Prior experience of working as a senior/lead role in Applied scientist/Data scientist/Software developer
4. Fundamental knowledge in A/B experimentation, statistics and mathematics: p-values, confidence intervals, etc.
5. Ability to work with ambiguous problems and scope and deliver results on own
6. Ability to be productive and effective in a highly collaborative environment
7. Strong communication and collaboration skills
8. Experience with building machine learning models on large scale data is a plus
9. Fluent communication in English is required
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Benefits
Medical insurance
Company background
Microsoft has had a presence in China for more than 20 years, entering the market in 1992. Our founder, Bill Gates, had the foresight to establish an office in Beijing, accurately predicting the country’s transition to the booming economy we see today.
Microsoft has expanded its business across the country under its strategy of long-term investment and development. Today, our most complete subsidiary and largest R&D center outside the United States is in China. Microsoft has been working closely with customers and industry partners to realize innovation and both localize and land Microsoft technologies and solutions in China. Microsoft boasts a robust partner ecosystem with 17,000 partners. For every RMB that Microsoft earns in China, Microsoft partners earn 16. In early 2015, Microsoft was awarded “The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative of 2015 Companies in China ” by Fast Company magazine due to its local product strategy and commitments to helping Chinese partners, and was included as one of ” The Companies Remaking The Chinese Economy” along with Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and other companies.
Microsoft is committed to our Chinese customers and to enabling their success, supporting customers at the enterprise, city, provincial and national levels. Microsoft also attaches great importance to its social responsibilities and has been active in giving back to the local communities in which it operates. This includes supporting education and training initiatives, promoting innovation and local economic development and assisting in building a secure and open computing environment.
