Job Description

The primary responsibilities of this role, Senior Software Engineer, are to: 

Work as part of an agile development team to build and support applications;
Work with team and product manager to manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables;
Interact directly with business customers to gather and understand requirements and how they translate in application features;
Develop applications and services using the right tool for the job;
Consistently contribute to solving common problems including shared libraries and frameworks;
Conduct functional and non-functional testing;
Troubleshoot and debug applications;
Deploy applications across all environments in collaboration with development team, product management, and delivery Champion code quality including unit and integration testing;
Evaluate existing applications to refactor, update and add new features;
Develop any technical documentation needed to accurately represent application design and code;
Identify and pursue opportunities to improve own knowledge and skills and those of more junior engineers;
Help to shape the vision for their own team's products and those of related teams, taking into account impacts, dependencies, and opportunities to collaborate with other teams and groups;
Identify opportunities to develop new and better solutions;
Anticipate and address technical obstacles affecting own team and related teams;
Provide guidance for technical design and architecture decisions within the team;
Participate in the evaluation and selection of new technologies;
Mentor other people and teams on technologies, techniques or standards across the organization.

Visa sponsorship is available.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or 7 years of equivalent experience;
At least five years (with Master’s degree at least three years, or Doctorate at least one year) of experience in solving challenging technical problems in two or more of the following areas:

Single page web application development
Unix/Linux environment management
Cloud based continuous delivery and environment management
Mobile application development
Micro-service design and development
Large, distributed system development
Software security
Processing and analyzing large data sets

Experience designing cloud-based software solutions or certification equivalent;
Practical experience and knowledge of industry practices;
Expertise in at least one technology or facet of product development (research, design, programming, testing);
Demonstrate developing cultivates innovation leadership competency;
Demonstrate capable manages ambiguity leadership competency;
Demonstrate strong courage leadership competency and written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred:

React JS, Nodes JS, AWS

Your application

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and you have the "Passion to Innovate" and the "Power to Change", we encourage you to apply now. To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.