As a Senior Software Engineer with Bayer Crop Science, you will be a full member of an agile software development team, interacting with product management, customers, and engineers while applying your own experiences to build relevant technical solutions to business problems. You will seek out and own mid- to long-term deliverables while refining your domain and technical knowledge. You'll also mentor and coach more junior engineers while building relationships with senior engineers across the company. 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES  

The primary responsibilities of this role 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. 

• Deliver high-quality, creative, and scalable technical solutions to problems related to team-owned product(s) and adjacent teams.  

• Work with engineers across the organization to ensure standards are met.  

• Coach and mentor other engineers to drive team improvement and growth.   

• Lead team conversations with product management, customers, and other related groups. 

WHO YOU ARE 

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following: 

Required: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience. 

• Minimum 5 years (Master's +3, or Doctorate +1) 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 

• Minimum 3 years designing cloud-based software solutions or certification equivalent. 

• Practical experience and knowledge of industry practices. 

• Familiarity with plant breeding concepts such as experiment design, hybrid breeding, and marker assisted selection 

• Expertise in at least one technology or facet of product development (research, design, programming, testing). 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $110-155k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant).? Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc..? This salary (or salary range) is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant's location, market data/ranges, an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors. 

This posting will be available for application until at least 9/30/25.