Staff Software Engineer

PURPOSE

Staff Software Engineers are focused on building and coordinating technical direction across teams. As experts in both technical and domain areas, they work with the Senior Staff Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers, Product Designers, Product Managers, and Leadership to set relevant long-term technical goals and drive innovative solutions that will continue to build on Bayer Crop Science's market advantage. They also drive a focus on education and help develop team skillsets to match technical strategy.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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
• Actively leverage AI coding assistants and generative AI tools within daily workflows to drive efficiency across development, debugging, and documentation
• Consistently contribute to solving organization-wide problems including shared platforms, 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
• Identify opportunities to develop new and better solutions
• Anticipate and address technical and organizational obstacles affecting own team and teams within the domain platform
• Provide guidance for technical design and architecture decisions within and across teams
• Participate in the evaluation and selection of new technologies
• Mentor other people and teams on technologies, techniques or standards across the organization
• Build relationships with key members of partner teams

WHO YOU ARE

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 8 years of experience (Master's Degree 6 years or Doctorate 4 years) in solving challenging technical problems in two or more of the following areas: Single page web application development (e.g., with ReactJS); Cloud-based continuous delivery and environment management (e.g., with AWS); Micro-service design and development; Large, distributed system development (e.g., with NodeJS, Go/Golang); Software security; Processing and analyzing large data sets
• Minimum of 3 years of experience designing cloud-based software solutions
• Practical experience and understanding of industry practices, engineering principles, concepts, and standards
• Proven experience integrating AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT) into daily SDLC practices to accelerate development and elevate code quality
• Expertise in at least one technology or facet of product development (research, design, programming, testing)
• Demonstrates capable business insight, strategic mindset, cultivates innovation, drives vision & purpose, and attracts & develops talent leadership competencies and decision-making skills
• Demonstrates a strong ability to manage ambiguity, alongside excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with regulatory compliance in the Crop Science domain, including IT product development for regulatory functions, experience within a Regulatory Affairs/Regulatory Science organization, or tenure at a relevant governmental regulatory agency (e.g., USDA, EPA, CFIA)