Join a team early in its journey towards massive growth. We’re the team driving consumer video at Microsoft – born from the Flipgrid camera and now proliferating throughout the company. Now we’re focused on growing Bing into the hub for consumer video and enabling video creation journeys across Microsoft. We’re looking for highly motivated engineers, with an interest and/or background in video to help us light up new video scenarios across the company. This role provides a unique opportunity to build for and directly impact multiple products simultaneously.

The WWE organization in Microsoft has the mission of “Make the web work for you”. This team is comprised of several thousand software engineers working on Bing search, Edge browser, Maps, Ads, News, and other projects. Over the years we have developed deep technical expertise in various areas – Machine learning, NLP, speech, computer vision, large scale deployments and continue to innovate and delight customers across 236 regions, 106 languages and with half a billion users.  Please watch  this  short video  on our team which will give you an insight on why you should join us.

The STCI Team is part of Microsoft’s India Development Centre(IDC) in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Noida (and home offices at cities across the country for the time being). The team is responsible for driving the overall strategy in search and AI Platforms – spanning consumer and enterprise customers. The team’s constant endeavor is to nurture an innovative, inclusive culture to enable one to build finely crafted Search & AI products and grow to be a leader. It is home to one of the largest groups of machine learning and AI talent, not just in IDC, but all of India. ​​​​​​​ Please visit our Instagram page   ( @lifeatstci )  to get a peek into our culture.

Responsibilities

As an iOS Engineer on the Video Experiences team, you will be an integral part of our tight-knit group of dedicated problem solvers. The ideal candidate should be able to quickly impact the iOS Team and work with larger partner organizations to deliver innovative and meaningful video experiences to millions of users around the world.

• Deliver iOS camera experiences that are highly crafted and rewarding for our users.

• Collaborate with mobile, design, and product teams to ensure the goals of the product are aligned with the delivered feature or service.

• Develop experiences that are rooted in a design-driven approach that adhere to the iOS design language and industry best practices.

• Work with the product development team in driving innovative approaches to solving complex problems.

• Ensure all delivered user-facing elements follows accessibility and inclusivity standards defined by WCAG, ADA, and MAS.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• 5+ years of iOS development experience developing features and experiences for medium-to-large-scale applications.

• 3+ years of iOS experience with an emphasis on building large-scale, world-class apps.

• Strong experience developing world-class applications using Swift.

• Strong ability to write resilient code that leverage end-to-end and unit tests.

• Design-driven with a strong understanding of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines and best design practices.

• Experience coordinating release planning across multiple teams.

Bonus credit for:

• Experience in media capturing, editing, and playback using AVFoundation.

• Proficient in delivering accessible apps that leverage touch and spoken feedback.

• Experience leveraging internal and external OSS solutions.

• Strong working knowledge of the UIKit helper APIs such as SnapKit, PureLayout, and/or Cartography.

• Experience with CoreAnimation and similar frameworks and libraries.

• Strong cross-discipline and cross-team collaboration skills.

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