Staff Software Engineer

Bayer • Chesterfield, MO • 2h ago

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.

As a Staff 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.

Apply understanding of plant breeding pipelines including germplasm management, crossing schemes, selection strategies and variety advancement.

Translate breeding program workflows into scalable software requirements and system architecture.

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

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required:

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

8+ years (or Masters +6 or Doctorate +4) 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?

3+ years experience designing cloud-based software solutions.

Demonstrated knowledge of plant breeding methodologies including selection theory, population genetics, and genetic gain optimization.

Practical experience and understanding of industry practices, engineering principles, concepts, and standards.

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 strong manages ambiguity leadership competency and written and verbal communication skills.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $117k-171k. 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 5/22/26.

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 Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.

To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.

Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans

Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

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Bayer is an E-Verify Employer.

Location: United States : Missouri : Chesterfield

Division: Crop Science

Reference Code: 870132

Email: hrop_usa@bayer.com

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