Software Engineer

Africa Development Center is hiring!
In Cognition, people – not devices – are at the center of everything we do. Our tech moves beyond screens and pixels, building a new reality aimed at bringing us closer together. The world’s first untethered, head-mounted holographic computer, the HoloLens was an example of this.
We are launching a Cognition Africa engineering team to build Mixed Reality Cloud Services that bring those technologies to a wider range of devices. Do you want to join us on this journey? We are offering opportunities for passionate Software Engineers to help us build the team and suite of cloud services which bring these capabilities to the cloud.
Are you looking for your next technical and career growth challenge? Does this sound like your dream job? We’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities
We are developing many new cloud services using AI and machine perception to enable rich, cross-platform Mixed Reality experiences. We’re a growing team of hardworking engineers putting technology on a human path across all devices.
As a member of our team:
You will deliver high-quality code components that will power the services, servers, distributed systems, networking and backend architecture for our products
You will play multiple, often divergent roles to ensure the success of our newly built engineering team
You will work with industry-leading scientists and engineers to bring the latest AI, Machine Learning and Computer vision capabilities to the cloud

Qualifications
3+ years’ experience in Software Engineering
Experience building, releasing, and supporting applications or services in a modern programming language using a common application or services stack
Experience shipping cloud services, networked applications or distributed systems
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Experience working with distributed engineering teams
Proven track record working with concurrent programming concepts like asynchronous operations, distributed consensus and parallelismpreferred but not required
Experience with Kubernetes & Golang preferred but not required

Benefits and Perks
Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the

country where you work:
Industry leading healthcare
Savings and investments
Giving programs
Educational resources
Maternity and paternity leave
Opportunities to network and connect
Discounts on products and services
Generous time away

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