OneDrive is a rapidly growing app at the center of Microsoft's cloud, interacting with almost every part of Microsoft. You would be a part of a team that is fundamentally changing how millions of people use their devices and interact with some of the most critical content for their personal and professional lives, their Photos and Documents.
About the Team
While OneDrive iOS is based mainly in the United States, we operate like a distributed team that heavily embraces remote work. Therefore, joining OneDrive iOS means you will join a group of colleagues based in different locations and time zones. We're committed to each team member feeling connected, regardless of where they work and live.
OneDrive iOS technical Stack
Our codebase is built on Swift and Objective-C and supports iOS 16 and above. We rely exclusively on Swift and SwiftUI when writing new features. In addition, we use several libraries written in various languages to make our app work. On the backend, we use services powered by Microsoft 365 and Azure. We release every two weeks, supported by several automation pipelines.
Responsibilities
As part of the team, you will collaborate with other engineers across the company to understand requirements in order to innovate, build and maintain a robust mobile platform for the OneDrive iOS app. You will coordinate with partner teams to integrate different capabilities into the app and help maintain a healthy code base. You will help improve our photos sync technology and optimize the app’s camera backup capability.
As a Principal Software Engineer - iOS, you will be:
Expanding your knowledge of Swift, SwiftUI, and cutting-edge mobile technologies
Creating a robust iOS platform on top of which OneDrive iOS engineers and partners build features
Obsessing over simplifying and optimizing the app’s dependencies, ramping capabilities, app startup sequence and authentication stack
Learning from customer feedback, running experiments, measuring and optimizing performance
Refining the codebase, proposing improvements, and getting those projects to the finish line
Mentoring your colleagues and championing best practices
Accelerating your career in a truly innovative and global engineering team
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
5+ years of demonstrated experience in iOS development (Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in Swift and familiarity with native iOS architecture, frameworks, and the Xcode IDE
Experience writing tests (unit and UI)
You drive collaboration in your team and across squads meaning that you can consider colleagues' ideas, implement new methods, surface and resolve disagreements and empathize with users without breaking a sweat.
Previous experience with large-scale mobile applications
A deeper understanding of the iOS build system
Expertise and pipeline automation / DevOps experience
A passion for performance optimization and troubleshooting customer-facing issues
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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
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