Sr Software Engineer

At Bayer, we're seeking a visionary Sr Software Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our agile software development team, you will play a crucial role in building and supporting applications, working closely with product management, customers, and engineers to deliver business value. Your expertise in cloud-based software solutions, particularly with Python, will be instrumental in driving innovation and growth within our organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work as part of an agile development team to build and support applications
• Collaborate 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 organisation

Requirements:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or at least 5 years of related experience in lieu of a Bachelor's degree)
• Related professional experience commensurate with degree level
• Related experience designing cloud-based software solutions OR equivalent certification
• Experience standing up a full-scale classic product including UI and API layers (cloud-based)
• Strong knowledge and demonstrated experience with Python
• Understanding of Pydantic models
• Comfort with containerized cloud deployments of various kinds using Docker
• Understanding of MCP (Model Context Protocol) as it works in code-based projects
• Knowledge of LangGraph or comprehension of a similar agent graph tool for development
• Familiarity with the general structure and rigor of AI products

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of demonstrated experience designing cloud-based software solutions or certification equivalent (AWS preferred)
• One of the following: Bachelor's Degree with minimum of 5 years of related technical experience; OR Master's Degree with a minimum of 3 years of related technical experience; OR PhD with a minimum of 1 year of related technical experience
• Familiarity with cloud-based agents such as those hosted in Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, or GCP Vertex AI
• Experience with Go
• Data-science-specific python tools such as NumPy, PyTorch, and Pandas
• Rudimentary understanding of data science and modeling principles, esp. the process of using separate dev/train/validation sets
• NLP in practice such as using small language models through spaCy to perform rudimentary tasks like similarity, quality, NER, or NLI
• Experience standing up a real AI-driven product
• Understanding of principles of machine learning (supervised, unsupervised, regression, logistic, loss functions, cost functions)
• Ability to write and communicate in math, primarily around probability theory and linear algebra
• Good instincts and comprehension of how frontier language and multi-modal models work

Experience Level": "senior