Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Solid programming and application engineering skills, with the ability to become productive in a large TypeScript and Rust codebase.
• Experience leading technical design and hands-on delivery for complex projects involving multiple contributors, within one team or across partner teams.
• Sound product and engineering judgment, including the ability to turn an ambiguous user problem into a practical, maintainable solution.
• Solid communication and collaboration skills, including working across team boundaries and helping other engineers grow.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building interactive applications, with attention to performance, accessibility, or cross-platform behavior.
• Experience designing APIs, extension points, or reusable components.
• Experience improving products through direct user feedback, telemetry, or experiments.
• Practical familiarity with AI coding tools and judgment about where they help, fail, or change development workflows.
• Experience building AI-powered features or contributing to developer tools or open-source projects.

What You'll Be Doing

• Identify product and engineering opportunities, helping define what to build through user feedback, experimentation, and technical insight.
• Shape technical direction within your area, balancing near-term product needs with long-term maintainability.
• Lead hands-on design, implementation, testing, and delivery of VS Code features, coordinating contributors and partner-team dependencies as needed.
• Own outcomes after release: understand adoption, investigate quality issues, and use telemetry, evaluations, and user feedback to guide improvements.
• Improve responsiveness and reliability through profiling, debugging, and automated testing; strengthen the tools that let the team experiment and ship confidently.
• Work in the open: discuss designs publicly, investigate community-reported issues, and collaborate directly with developers and extension authors.
• Mentor engineers and improve technical decisions through constructive design and code reviews.

Perks and Benefits

• Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Switzerland is CHF 146,200.00 - CHF 245,900.00 per year.
• Opportunity for benefits and other compensation.
• Open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.