Staff Software Engineer / EF / São Paulo - SP

At Bayer, we work hard to make this company a better place for our employees - and the world a better place for everyone. "Health for all, hunger for none." That's our vision at Bayer. 

At Bayer, Diversity & Inclusion is taken seriously, it is a non-negotiable value, and it is one of the strategic pillars of our organization. We believe that diverse teams foster greater innovation and contribute to a more creative and welcoming work environment, allowing employees to be who they really are and express their full potential.

That's why everyone is welcome at Bayer: men, women, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, transgender, white, black, disabled and from different generations. If you have any diversity markers, feel even more encouraged to apply for this position, we will be very happy to meet you!

GET TO KNOW OUR AREA:

Join our dynamic Product Team dedicated to enhancing the Route to Market Partner experience for Distributors & Retailers in the LATAM region! We are focused on creating a best-in-class experience that prioritizes the needs and expectations of our partners, ultimately supporting Farmers in their success. Our experience squads are accountable for driving success, owning specific goals and deliverables to ensure quality interactions at every touchpoint.

As a key member of our team, you will collaborate across diverse roles to meet the unique needs of the partner journey, combining your skills with teammates to deliver integrated, end-to-end solutions. If you are passionate about improving partner experiences and making a meaningful impact in the agricultural ecosystem, we invite you to help shape the future of farming in LATAM. Join us in setting new standards for excellence in the industry!

YOUR MISSION WILL BE TO:

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, and Engineering Managers 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.

Key Tasks:

• 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 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.

Key Working Relation:

• 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 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.

ARE YOU READY FOR THE POSITION?

Must have:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, orequivalent experience;
• Strong and preferred 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;
• Solid experience in developing cloud-based software solutions;
• 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;
• Languages: English, Portugese, and/or Spanish;

Nice to Have:

• Experience in building and delivering agricultural and e-commerce products and strategy.

What´s in it for you?

At Bayer we have established our benefits in three essential pillars, which integrate and converge to promote the life quality and well-being of our employees.

• Health Care Plan
• Dental Plan
• Medicines Subsidy
• GymPass
• “Conte Comigo” - Psychological, chemical dependence, legal and financial assistance
• “Bem Nascer” - Health monitoring during pregnancy, no coparticipation in the health care plan, workshop for pregnant women (employees or partner of employees), extended maternity and paternity leave, daycare assistance, Bepantol baby, etc.

• Private Pension Plan – A long term savings vehicle that offers 200% of matching contribution, competitive employee loan portfolio and promotes financial wellbeing
• Life Insurance
• CoopBayer - Cooperative that aims at the financial education and giving credit for employees
• Holidays bridge and holidays regular schedule, occurs all year round, including eve of National Holidays
• Vacations flexibility (within the provisions of the Brazilian legislation)
• **Bayer Country Club – Country Club facilities: Leisure area, game room, swimming pool, gym, party room and football pitch)
• *Working from Home policy 
• *Flex Time and Short Friday

*There may be some difference in the benefits package according to position and location

**It depends on employee association

 skills.