Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, WA
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Jul 27, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An engineering leadership role responsible for managing and growing a team that builds and operates billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting services. The manager will own technical strategy and architecture decisions across multiple teams, drive engineering excellence, and partner with Product, Finance, and Operations stakeholders. Suits an experienced engineering leader with a background in large-scale distributed systems and ideally financial or commerce platforms.
Senior level · 6+ years · Bachelor's required
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The title 'Lead' here reads as a verb (lead and grow a team), not a seniority level — the posting carries no explicit level label, so advertised seniority is Unspecified.
The degree requirement has three paths: (1) Bachelor's + 6 yrs, (2) Master's + 8 yrs, (3) Bachelor's + 12 yrs, or equivalent experience. The minimum hard gate is a Bachelor's degree with 6 years of experience; the overall years minimum is set to 6 accordingly. The 'or equivalent experience' clause would normally push the degree requirement to None, but the three explicit degree paths make a Bachelor's the practical floor — flagged here for the hiring manager's awareness.
The coding languages (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python) are listed as examples ('including, but not limited to') under the required qualifications; they are captured as a single required skill with alternatives since any one of them satisfies the gate.
Experience with financial systems, billing, payments, commerce, or accounting is described as 'highly desirable' — treated as preferred and not captured as a hard gate.
Distributed systems design and cloud services are stated as required ('solid background') in the qualifications section and are captured as hard gates, even though no specific platform or technology is named.
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