Staff Software Engineer
Bayer
At Bayer, we believe work should matter. Every day, our teams push toward a future where "Health for all, Hunger for none" is within reach, and every role, from the lab to the field to the boardroom, helps us get there. We give people the ownership to shape outcomes, the support to grow through new skills and experiences, and a global community where different perspectives are valued. If you want your work to count and the room to become your best, you'll find it here.
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 Crops Science’s market advantage. They also drive a focus on education and help develop team skillsets to match technical strategy.
The Staff Software Engineer:
- Designs, develops, tests, and maintains software applications that meet user needs and business requirements;
- Writes clean, efficient code and collaborates with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and implement enhancements;
- Applies best practices in software development, including version control and agile methodologies, to ensure high-quality deliverables;
- Participates in code reviews and contribute to documentation, fostering a collaborative environment that supports continuous improvement and innovation in software solutions;
- Acts as leader within their squads and their unit, influencing and aligning multiple team members and teams towards accomplishing shared business outcomes.
This role will be based in Creve Coeur, MO. Candidates must be domiciled within the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area as remote working arrangements will not be accomodated for this role.
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;
- May report to senior people leader;
- Works daily with a team of Software Engineers;
- Collaborates with Product Management to manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables;
- Interact regularly with Business Users throughout the project lifecycle;
- Engage with teams who are outside the organization throughout the development process, as needed;
- Interacts with engineers across the team, related teams, and domain platform;
- May lead department teams and be active in inter-department teams;
- Gets along well in an expanded team;
- Actively solicits feedback from project members and looks for the right solution to problems;
- Able to mentor other more junior staff and leverage their time for the larger whole (delegation);
- Is comfortable with a change in direction;
- Knows the difference between a technical and non-technical issue and knows when additional stakeholders need to be involved;
- Able to clearly communicate the progress of a small team;
- Is a strong communicator and can represent technical material at an appropriate level for the audience;
- Has begun to build company-wide relationships.
WHO YOU ARE:
Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
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, te