Sr Software Engineer

At Bayer we're visionaries, driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We're doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining 'impossible'. There are so many reasons to join us. If you're hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there's only one choice.

Sr Software Engineer

Our Engineering and Data Science, Field Automation Engineering Team is a group of technologists passionate about creating the systems that fuel the farm of the future. We are reimagining and rebuilding our entire suite of field technologies for the world of digital ag, a world that is geospatial, that is automated, that is cognitive. A world where every plant matters. A world where machines, agronomists, breeders, scientists, and engineers work collaboratively to deliver products that revolutionize the experience of our customers.

We're looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join our team and help expand our custom software platform that enables global field-testing operational activities. The evolution of data connectivity, user experience, machine learning, and supporting hardware technologies has provided us with a toolset to create the next generation of our connected systems. These systems will be data driven and provide real-time results that drive the decision-making capabilities. You will assume hands-on ownership of the architecture, design, and development of the software systems that will facilitate a new generation of data and human connectivity across all our electromechanical automation platforms.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role are to:

• Work in an agile development environment to build and support full-stack cloud-based applications.
• Work with development lead and stakeholders to manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Interact directly with business customers to gather and understand requirements and how they translate in application features.
• 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.
• Adhere to established and modern data security practices.
• 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.

WHO YOU ARE
Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline
• 5 years of experience developing REST APIs in a modern programming language/technology such as Javascript/Node.Js, C#, Java and Python
• 3 years of experience developing single/multi-page web-based UI's.
• 3 years of experience working with relational/NoSQL database technologies and abstraction tools
• 3 years of experience developing in the AWS ecosystem and practical experience with Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, RDS.
• Practical experience architecting and designing full-stack software systems
• Practical experience and knowledge of software development best practices
• Demonstrable technical leadership
• Demonstrable ability to manage ambiguity
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred:

• Experience developing IoT tech. or distributed systems generating large amounts of data.
• Experience developing mobile UIs (React Native, Swift, Xamarin)
• Practical experience developing applications or scripting in Python 3
• Experience with asynchronous, event driven technologies such as Kafka and RabbitMQ

This posting will be available for application until at least 5/9/25.
YOUR APPLICATION
Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Science for a better life, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.
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