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Principal Software Engineering Manager - Windows UI Platform

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Hyderabad, India Manager Posted 2026-05-25

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About this role

Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management, and engineering teams. Managing a team of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership. Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the product to next level. Own career development of team through active coaching. Create a solid team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. And of course, having fun too! Lead, motivate and drive the team to embrace the best of frontier and Agentic coding practices. Hire and develop the best. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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. 6 or more years of total experience designing, building and shipping software at scale and at least 4 years of team leadership and people management. Significant interest and experience with AI-powered, agentic coding tools and platforms. Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership and communication skills. Experience in leading large dev teams to achieve complex goals on time and on budget. Proven ability to find a shippable solution given conflicting and ambiguous requirements. Excellent Technical skills in Driving Design, Architecture with cross product and services dependencies. Ability to Drive Innovation with customer obsession. Experience with cross group design and coordination is an advantage. You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result oriented. Windows development tools (including Visual Studio) and developer platform (WinUI, WPF, WinForms, ReactNative for Windows, MAUI, Blazor, Electron) and familiarity with XAML. 12 + Years of experience in C++/C#/Win32 application and systems programming. Experience working with AI/ML models, CoPilot & related tools would be a bonus. Experience working in open source, GitHub specifically, managing large collaborative open-source projects, and communicating with customers directly on GitHub.

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